What is consciousness? Some new perspectives from our physics project

Post by theknocker » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 8:12 PM UTC

neonological wrote: post #13

Careful. "Consciousness" may just be a language issue. It seems like a profound concept but it's really just a word with a very vague and complex definition. If someone tried to formalize "consciousness" it would be a technical book about 1000 pages long or something and all we're doing is debating about what goes in the book. It's very similar to the question what is "life?" I mean we understand that biology is just…

Post by tazjin » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 8:15 PM UTC

fultonla wrote: post #18

throw_away98321 wrote: post #7

I think of consciousness as a feeling and nothing more. Similar to the feeling of free will, both are an "illusion" and we're not actually aware or free. The universe is made of instructions that everything follows and including us. We believing in awareness is just instructions for how we operate as subsystems of the Universe and like or unlike other subsystems of the universe. I find the idea simpler to grasp if yo…

So, what would you say a "feeling" is, exactly?

Post by nahuel0x » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 8:18 PM UTC

throw_away98321 wrote: post #7

I think of consciousness as a feeling and nothing more. Similar to the feeling of free will, both are an "illusion" and we're not actually aware or free. The universe is made of instructions that everything follows and including us. We believing in awareness is just instructions for how we operate as subsystems of the Universe and like or unlike other subsystems of the universe. I find the idea simpler to grasp if yo…

Post by barefeg » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 8:23 PM UTC

nahuel0x wrote: post #26

I don't know if something of this is real, falsifiable, or how much of it is original work (and surely you need to peel off the Wolfram classic ego driven sentences) but I think I'm not the only one finding this project thought provoking and beautiful, at least in a poetic sense.

Post by Layke1123 » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 8:26 PM UTC

arnoooooo wrote: post #2

No explanation of consciousness cuts it if it does not address how first person perspective comes about. No computation results in first person perspective.