What is consciousness? Some new perspectives from our physics project • Hacker News Board

Re: What is consciousness? Some new perspectives from our physics project

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Post by dang » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 2:06 AM UTC

neonological wrote: post #100

_y5hn wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry. Was hoping it was motivational to know oneself better.

Mods, You've warned me before to not aggressively respond to attackers and flag them but, ignoring this is wrong. The guy just flagrantly delivered an insult to my face.

If I read the GP comment correctly, it was intended more as a philosophical point (albeit a bizarre way to put one) rather than as a personal insult.

Re: What is consciousness? Some new perspectives from our physics project

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Post by dang » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 2:07 AM UTC

_y5hn wrote: post #99

neonological wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dang. this guy told me to fuck off and I flagged him and you're completely ignoring this?

I'm sorry. Was hoping it was motivational to know oneself better.

Please do a better job of disambiguating your points from personal insults. It's not surprising that your comment landed as an insult.

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Re: What is consciousness? Some new perspectives from our physics project

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Post by galaxyLogic » Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 3:25 AM UTC

marshmellman wrote: post #72

galaxyLogic wrote: post #70

We can hear our thoughts and we can remember having "heard" them. I think that is consciousness. It is sensory perception of some of our brain-processes, interpreted by our brain, just like brain can categorize seeing blue as just that.

Why do you say “sensory” perception? Do you just mean that we think about our brain processes, or something else?

That's a good question. Somehow we perceive our thoughts. We perceive whether they are in English or in German. We perceive the likeness of what our ears would perceive if we spoke those thoughts out. Now what kind of sensor-mechanism could there be that would perceive those non-spoken thoughts? Well it can simply be perception of "brain-waves".

The (original) stimuli for perception need not come from the outside only. When the light enters the eye it immediately becomes brain-signal. Same with our ears etc. So what we "perceive" is really brain-signals all the way. Therefore it does not sound mysterious to me how we could be able to "perceive thoughts", and it appears we can, we can "hear our thoughts".