A draft of a paper exploring a novel, fundamental theory of consciousness, rooted in physics:
Is Matter Conscious? (2017)
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#12In summary, neutral monism.
In my opinion, here is a far better article on the same topic: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neutral-monism/
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#13>Is matter conscious Not gonna read that. No. No, matter is not conscious. Go home nautil.us, you’re drunk.
I think conciousness would be a potential property of matter, but no not all matter is conscious. The question should actually be:
Does all conciousness have matter?
Which brings up many more questions, such as:
What even is the topic?
Re: Is Matter Conscious? (2017)
#14Jürgen Schmidthuber (an AI researcher for those not familiar with the name) gave an interesting explanation what conciousness is in an AMA that he conducted in 2015 on Reddit.
I just submitted that in an extra thread [0] because it seems worth discussing.
Re: Is Matter Conscious? (2017)
#15Of course. We are matter.
So are rocks.
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#16I could have been born at any time, in any place in the universe - or not at all, for that matter. Why do I get to experience the universe in a unique way? What gives rise to this?
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#17I've hypothesized something very similar on my own. Perhaps we'll discover that consciousness, or rather the experience of consciousness, is either a property of matter in specific complex arrangements. Or not matter but perhaps spacetime in some respect. It doesn't really explain how consciousness works, but could explain why it's been so hard for us to understand, just as we don't really understand the nature of ex…
I feel that the best interpretation of it is the thing you should never think about.
Re: Is Matter Conscious? (2017)
#18No, but information is.
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#19If so, then some math equation is conscious, too. It is like asking what color is that smell?
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#20If so, then some math equation is conscious, too. It is like asking what color is that smell?
No and no. Math equations are abstract concepts within the mind. This question is about how the mind exists in the first place. Nothing here even remotely implies that math equations are conscious.