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What I meant is clear in my question and the whole last paragraph, both of which you ignored again.

You are making exactly the right point - qualia is integrated information. It's a physical effect, a realization in the form of 'inner representation'...

Do you perceive yourself as a conceptual form, without "self", without your own intention? Those layers are not conceptual forms, they are causal and ...

We see emergent layers of existence emerging directly from previous ones: atom - molecule - cell - organ - organism... Why then say conscious experien...

Aether has structure and dynamics, fluid dynamics of vortices to be precise. That is how Maxwell originally got his equations, but it was forgotten an...

Where do you see the connection between Platonic realm of geometry and that of Quantum field? I say it's Aether, and that already makes more sense as ...

Let me try. Sensors existed before consciousness and they caused chemical and electrical reactions. When sentience appeared it could not choose how to...

I like to hear any theory, but have too much to read already. Can you say anything about the actual process of materialization of those abstractions?

I admit properties of atoms are mysterious and magical just as the concept of god, but it's simpler assumption, leaves us with less questions to wande...

Abstraction (information) needs matter/energy to be causally relative. Abstractions exist in minds, which do exist in time and space. Unmoved Mover ca...

This reminded of Starflight game fom DOS days, where the fuel they used for interstellar travell turned out to be sentient lifeform.

Perhaps I should have explained the parallel with the brain in detail. Anyway, the point was that our definitions are far too wide to grasp the concep...

It would end, or it would begin.

Yes, for other reasons. Time is abstract, does not exist separatelly from the concept of velocity, like angle does not exist without two lines. Time c...

I mean semantically it is impossible to talk about the existence of something if there are separate special meanings for the word "exist", "never" and...

To exist outside of the time is to exist never. To exist outside of space is to exist nowhere. It means it does not exist and that it never existed. I...

Yes, it makes no sense we just happen to exist. The problem is this god would be thinking the same thing. This god could also be shapeshifting lizard ...

It could also be said then, the purpose of sentience is imagination, the ability to create ideas. But still, why qualia?

I feel there might be some truth there, but if it's all just about computation, then much simpler solution is to simply flag signals by priority, just...

Too late at the momement, but maybe not for the next time.

Selection determinator can be passive and inanimate against some dynamics, like A shaped roof selects which raindrops go to one or the other side. So ...

What do you mean? I mean there is no randomness in chemistry. H and O will form H2O and never H3O2 or H4O5. And when water forms snowflakes, they are ...

It's maddening. “You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.” ? Alan Watts

It was hardly random once ecosystem settled into stable cycles, then chemical affinity to spontaneously form lipids and self-replicating polymers make...

It is communicated as a concept. Black to white grayscale is a simple concept of linear variable, brightness varies from 0 to 255 for example. So then...

My objection? To what point of yours when you made no point, but keep asking questions? Do you have any point to make, what is it?

The reason for separation are new emergent entities, properties, and meanings. So we can talk about things like wetness and acidity, or letters and wo...

That's not the context where you exist as a collective entity. You need to look several levels of abstraction above... atom - molecule - cell - organ ...

Because you occupy different location in space, and especially because you seem to move infependently from the forces of nature. I guess I could say t...

It's like you are saying you'd rather keep imagining than look through a telescope. Is it not the ultimate goal to actually move, if possible, any and...

We usualy get born with two eyes and one nose. With the help then of the sense of touch, perhaps that's sufficient to derive everything else in the Pl...

If all is just electro-magnetic chemistry, that is 'material' in a sense it is measurable, then all we need is true definition. Right? For example, if...

Then the answer has to be behind the meaning of the word "observation". And I hate one of quantum mechanics most senseless interpretations actually ma...

There is something about emotions that makes them closer to thinking than sensing. It's like feeling desire is closer to thinking 2+2=4 than tasting s...

I don't see why, but I see the opposite is true. I would say there is no emotion and no sensation without thought. I can imagine suddenly existing in ...

Is it not actually possible to put people in a state where they can not feel anything and yet are still conscious? In other words, what exactly is wro...

Then I think you might enjoy this problem, it can not get more concrete than this. Below is a personal computer hardware configuration for which I cla...

I think I only heard Rupert Sheldrake mention something among the lines to facilitate absorbtion of collective memory in his morphic resonance theory....

Great, thank you.

How about I say consciousness is a type of 'receiver', something where output information from cognition, sensations and emotions gets "in", either ex...

The same thing you missed when I said in another thread: "any experience is necesarilly subjective experience", and you disagreed without given explan...

I would phrase it like this: Brain generates cognition, sensation, and emotion. How can "self" experience those feelings and thoughts? For what purpos...

Word "sum" narrows down some of it and can inspire some quite specific ideas, like this: consciousness, or a function of it, is kind of a loom integra...

Thanks. Is there some site where I could find recent papers on the subject free to download?

"Ability to draw correlations between different things", is that not the same thing as intelligence? In any case, it's only functional description, no...

I suppose you don't mean each disposition and emotion has its own sense, like that of touch and smell, but is there anything actually contradicting th...

That our sensory input does not reflect true reality is separate problem from ontology of the subjectiveness of experience.

How can possibly a computer have 'functionality' which could explain 'subjectiveness' of the experience?

What It Is Like To Experience X? The question is not complete, it should go like this: What it's like for Y to Experience X? And let's get specific: W...

I would argue experience necessarily must be subjective experience, and subjective experience I think implies the subject which is "self", i.e. self-a...