String theorist Edward Witten says consciousness “will remain a mystery”
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String theorist Edward Witten says consciousness “will remain a mystery”
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Re: String theorist Edward Witten says consciousness “will remain a mystery”
#2Rather than physics, I think computational neurology and machine learning / deep learning / AI have a much better chance at elucidating what consciousness is.
Re: String theorist Edward Witten says consciousness “will remain a mystery”
#3Consciousness is based on a fifth fundamental force in the universe, and certain structures, like DNA, are tuned into that force, like an antenna.
Re: String theorist Edward Witten says consciousness “will remain a mystery”
#4Consciousness is based on a fifth fundamental force in the universe, and certain structures, like DNA, are tuned into that force, like an antenna.
Statements like this, without any arguments to support them, are quite uninteresting.
Re: String theorist Edward Witten says consciousness “will remain a mystery”
#5Consciousness is based on a fifth fundamental force in the universe, and certain structures, like DNA, are tuned into that force, like an antenna.
Statements like this, without any arguments to support them, are quite uninteresting.
Nothing is intrinsically interesting. Everything is just habit, based on what you are used to.
Re: String theorist Edward Witten says consciousness “will remain a mystery”
#6Insert opinion on consciousness here, because having it means I understand it at a low level.
Re: String theorist Edward Witten says consciousness “will remain a mystery”
#7Consciousness is based on a fifth fundamental force in the universe, and certain structures, like DNA, are tuned into that force, like an antenna.
That sounds like something Terence McKenna would have said.
Re: String theorist Edward Witten says consciousness “will remain a mystery”
#8Insert opinion on consciousness here, because having it means I understand it at a low level.
It's a subjective experience, so I'm not sure we can reason very well about what anything fundamentally unlike ourselves subjectively experiences. I mean, I can program my computer to print out "I calculate, therefore I am" but who knows what, if anything, the processor experiences as it calculates that.
Re: String theorist Edward Witten says consciousness “will remain a mystery”
#9The article is based on a video from 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwsvSjXkJU
Re: String theorist Edward Witten says consciousness “will remain a mystery”
#10See, if a neuroscientist went and had an opinion on sub-atomic physics, people would say "that's nice" and pat them on the head in a patronizing way. But the problem is general. A scientist outside their field is a layman.