Yes. I agree. I would use different words. I would say in a moment of consciousness all the information in ones possession converges to a point. All o...
All is half truths except for this sentence? How we conceive self and other is crucial metaphysically. @"apokrisis" is fond of evoking Howard Pattee's...
You mean the mind can create a world beyond the world in itself? Yes indeed! And if you accept that every consciousness is unique in the absolute sens...
The Unicorn can exist physically as patterns of matter and energy ( information ) in your mind, just like all other thoughts, as neuroplasticity would...
Thanks for the link, I'll read it in detail later. Yes. The basis of experience is emotional. I think the philosophical zombie argument really brings ...
I am very much a phenomenologist, but this is very tricky. What we can examine is a self concept. But, as a monist, what I try to describe is how all ...
What this feeling is precisely is very difficult to resolve. My thinking, very roughly, is that all systems self organize due to this feeling. That al...
This forum format is not ideal for conveying everything that one would like. I try to keep things brief and to the point, and no doubt some clarity, a...
:up: Yes. "A process of integrating information for the purpose of self organization". I think this would capture everything in the same act. Can you ...
Before even first base can be reached, a definition of consciousness is required. Consciousness is something different for a monist, dualist, idealist...
My theory is that we are not free to think as we like. That we are a body of information ( as a self ). So in order to be self consistent we have to c...
I'm glad you provided the link. You have a dualistic understanding of information - you believe it can be abstracted from the material, like the infor...
Augustine of Hippo 430AD, describing information! Wonders will never cease! I probably should make a thread - what is information? The information phi...
Yes, it may be we initially identified with a group, or perhaps the environment we were in, or just didn't have these thoughts at all. Some native cul...
Shannon's information theory is vey focused to that end, however that information always travels over a substrate is obvious. Information is the pertu...
Ha,ha, If we always had this sense of specialty, then we would have always had a sense of self, which would contradict the dominant view that what sep...
Neuroplasticity tells us that established information is memorized in physical structure somehow. This is consistent with Constructivism, which sugges...
There are those that would argue that they are not an element of the universe, that they are something set apart and special. As @"Gnomon" pointed out...
That consciousness is a state of integrated information is an idea that precedes IIT. It is the most coherent definition that I have encountered, as i...
Systems evolve interrelationally. It makes no sense to think an organism could survive without the system it evolved in. A system's self organization ...
It does not require a cut, if the information flows from one system to another. "Information always travels over a substrate" - Shannon. Information i...
This is the sort of cheap shot I would expect from somebody who does not have the wit to partake in the discussion. For a theory to be possible it nee...
Everything that exists, exists as an evolving self organizing system - a self in the process of accumulating / integrating information. This is the ma...
Self organization entails self interest because a "self" is itself a body of information, trying to maintain its integrity in the face of a constant o...
"Self organization" inserts life into the scene. Due to the fine tuning of the universe, in select pockets, order arises due to every point in such un...
There is so much misinformation and as a result confusion about entropy, when all natural systems are dissipative systems: dissipation is a necessary ...
You would then also be saying that information integrates on its own? This is a significant obstacle, as what we most deeply identify with is that whi...
Are you referring to the "fine tuning" of the universe - that forces all systems in ordered pockets of the universe to self organize by integrating in...
Correct, but this also means your QM stuff has to ultimately resolve to physical structure - so has to interact and integrate with physical structure....
It is generally accepted that what makes human consciousness distinct from lesser forms of consciousness is self awareness. At some stage we evolved f...
If you are going to make comments about other people, I think it is a good idea to do so directly to their face, otherwise it is slander. I wont sue t...
more unconscious activity going on than conscious— leaving aside more complex behavior, which is itself largely unconscious (though it does vary). — X...
This sounds intuitively correct, like the Earth being flat, but it has logical problems. Any sort of self concept must arise as a product of understan...
To explain consciousness as a physical process we must acknowledge the role of energy in the brain. Energetic activity is fundamental to all physical ...
Does this universal exist intrinsically to everyThing? Or does this universal exist in the background ubiquitously, such that everything within it sel...
Could be. I think we each have our own historical information which we use to understand things with, and we do it in our own style / way. But that we...
Something like that. I don't know the details absolutely. ** I think of it as the object of perception being in superposition of an entangled body of ...
All this is true. It can be understood as a body of information, that integrates more information onto itself, along its path. But can not integrate i...
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