Is Consciousness Everywhere?
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Is Consciousness Everywhere?
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#2This seems related to Conscious Realism and the conscious-agent thesis:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.0057...
Both articles address the combination problem. However, the one I linked to goes into more detail about it and in fact addresses two separate combination problems:
“The first is the combination of phenomenal experiences, i.e., of qualia. [...] The second problem is the combination of subjects of experiences.”
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#3From what I remember Koch and Tononi measure consciousness in Phi ( and phi is complexity) I remember a conversation at Towards a Science of Consciousness conference about this. If Phi is measured in complexity you could make a glass window complex and that is conscious.
Also during Tononi's talk a guy walked through the isle and said something along the lines of 'Phi is the answer, Phi is god, Tononi is our savior'
Thoughts on Phi?
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#4I would recommend Llinás book "I of the Vortex" which explains a pretty interesting reason for the existance of "consciousness". Also Wittgenstein has some thoughts about it too.
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#5This seems related to Conscious Realism and the conscious-agent thesis: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.0057... Both articles address the combination problem. However, the one I linked to goes into more detail about it and in fact addresses two separate combination problems: “The first is the combination of phenomenal experiences, i.e., of qualia. [...] The second problem is the combination of…
Don Hoffman and Bryan Keating conversation came out a few days ago
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#6I would recommend Llinás book "I of the Vortex" which explains a pretty interesting reason for the existance of "consciousness". Also Wittgenstein has some thoughts about it too.
Also I am a strange loop - Hofstadter
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#7A nice summary from one of the main proponents of the pansychic approach, but curiously omits mention of David Chalmers and contemporary philosophy which the modern renaissance of interest in the idea owes so much to.
Discussed regularly in this forum.
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#8Sam Harris' thoughts on free will in his books, app, and podcast transformed the way I think about consciousness. Alan Watts talked about the consciousness of a daffodil, and that too had a profound impact on my feelings about myself and the universe.
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#9Yes but for the love of gods can you stop trying to become bees? AGAIN?!? Honey bees are not conscious. They use their hive for computation, it acts as half of one brain, for each bee has its own half.
See thoth.substack.com.
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#10This seems related to Conscious Realism and the conscious-agent thesis: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.0057... Both articles address the combination problem. However, the one I linked to goes into more detail about it and in fact addresses two separate combination problems: “The first is the combination of phenomenal experiences, i.e., of qualia. [...] The second problem is the combination of…
"shifting from evolutionary biology to quantum physics" - always a bad sign to find this, it just means some woo-woo explanation based on a very poor concept of quantum physics.