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Trying to understand the terminology. If full-on consciousness can be of not very much experience/very little content, is our consciousness also full-...

I don't know of any reason to believe most things are full-on conscious. How do you define "full-on" that allows particles, or rocks, or the vast majo...

One way or another, the capacity for consciousness was always there in the first place. If the capacity wasn't always there, consciousness couldn't ex...

Your audience, in this case, is more likely the problem. :lol: Yes, very different. Our information is not compulsory. (I think I like active informat...

I've been thinking about something lately. I assume it's part of some field of study or other, but I don't know enough to know which. I only thought a...

Gnow gnow.

Hey! Your last name isn't von Icarus!! :lol:

I'm only saying there is a source of energy that can account for the energy that would be needed to decrease the entropy, if that's what happened.

Gotcha. Thanks.

We call it random, even though, no matter the size of the circle, we don't have to predict, we absolutely know what any digit will be?

Also, pi isn't random.

I have read a few descriptions of Shannon's work, and cannot get the gist of things. (Sadly, same with Godel. Very unhappy at my apparent inability.) ...

I would suggest the system is the solar system, not just the Earth. The energy from the sun could have powered the increase in order.

"Answer 2: Because the number 7 is prime." Yes. But only because the person who set the dominoes up did so so that they would end that way if they beg...

Of course, there's the possibility that we discover life all over the place. But sure, let's just say. I guess I would wonder why something created th...

You said, "It's possible time doesnt exist outside the realm of what living things perceive." I think time exists regardless of living things' percept...

Sure. Still, is it not alive, and starving to death because it has not eaten?

Might it not starve to death, whether or not it remembers that it has not eaten?

If it cannot do/experience any of those things, will it still get old and die?

Indeed, difficult to see the strings. And, of course, by definition, we can't study another universe. Can't guess what we'll come to be able to do in ...

Odd. I have a notification that you replied to me, and can see the beginning of your reply. But I can't see your reply here. Anyway, I'm not arguing t...

True. We just don't know how it comes about.

With our current technology. I suspect advancements to our technology will allow us to search beyond our galaxy in far less than a million years.

Why do we have the words "natural" and "unnatural"? We know what we mean. If we discover a cave deep underground that we don't think anyone could have...

Far worse is the non-modified primates winning time after time.

Indeed! And thank you, once again.

Even if reductive materialism is not the totality of the answer, it's an indispensable ingredient.

I'd say metabolism and reproduction are key. Complexity and self-organization seem to suggest these things can come about, given the opportunity for e...

Hehe. Although Benj brought consciousness into the conversation in the first post, trying to stock to abiogenesis here isn't a bad idea, imo.

I guess we know Khan's position on consciousness.

And it is reductive. A macro characteristic is not reductive only if the same characteristic is present in the microscopic constituents. To be reducti...

True, the idea isn't new. But, if it was found to be factual (can't imagine how that could happen), the acceptance of it would be. The world would hav...

I think panpsychism might fall under the heading of a paradigm shift. But, assuming panpsychism isn't true, what other ideas being suggested do?

OMG that's hysterical! :lol: And that's what I get for not proofreading. I would much rather accidentally post gobbledygook than some of spellcheck's ...

I try to find analogies. If I saw a skyscraper made entirely of liquid H2O, I'd know something was up. The properties of liquid H2O cannot explain a s...

I was sent to Presbyterian Sunday School as a child. Church at times, though not weekly, thank God. I knew the quotes and all that jazz. When I was ab...

Partial to the attribute of matter idea, myself. But can you explain the "latent beefiness patent" thinking?

I googled and got this: A Neuroscientist's Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious Surprised to see him "proposing panpsychism" in 2013.

Well that's interesting! I noticed yesterday that he has a new book, Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It. The blurb...

I just went looking. Turns out it was you who recommended Damasio. Ha!

Fair enough.

Ah. Yeah, I'm only taking about consciousness.

But they are only duplicating physical processes like those that let us perceive a certain range of the electromagnetic spectrum, distinguish differen...

I'm working on it!!! :grin:

180 says magic. You mean "soul realm" the way you mean it. I know that now, but only because you told me. Other readers won't necessarily know that. P...

I do very well with this kind of book on audio. Rewind 10-30 seconds is very helpful. I always get the kindle/nook also, and read and highlight parts ...

Amen. And I have apnea. Even with the CPAP, it's almost impossible for me to read. Even excellent, exciting novels are almost always beyond my ability...

Lars Chittka is mentioned in the article. He has a great book called The Mind of a Bee.

Beating us at chess is x, y, and z. One process or another is looking at what is possible given there current position of the pieces. Another is compa...