:up: I think there is a determinism with a slight element of randomness. It is enactivist. In the enactive interrelationship of subject and object the...
Thanks for the link. It is such a difficult thing to express, isnt it? I think you have done well. Just one little quibble. You also focus on entropy,...
We can discern a cause, but a cause is not a purpose. To discern a purpose we would need to know what reality is founded on absolutely. Not having acc...
If you acquaint yourself with the philosophical zombie argument, you will see that without emotion, there would be no experience, and so there would b...
There is so much misinformation on entropy. So much focus on it when in fact natural systems are dissipative systems: "It is now generally recognized ...
All the why questions related to natural phenomena, can be answered by "self organization". I think you will understand what I mean. Why does a fish h...
I agree with this - it relates back to the metaphysical need to relate one thing to another. Certainly it is more than that. Once you can integrate in...
I find your expressive style quite difficult to follow. But not a bad answer, on the whole. So you are saying you do not have to integrate information...
No. If you agree that consciousness is a state of integrated information, then you don't know that the higher forms of it are not, at their most basic...
Information integration = consciousness In a universe that has structure, consciousness is fundamental. Or put another way, in a universe that has str...
In Yogic logic, increasing one's self awareness to encompass the universe is a way to reach a higher reality. One can do this by identifying with the ...
What defies entropy is the progressive self organization of the universe. This seems to be possible because far more space is created in the universe ...
Before anything can exist at all, information has to be integrated. So in this universe things exist as self organizing things that integrate informat...
- anything that integrates information. - which is everything, in the process of creating a self. This is the main game in a self organizing universe....
If you had a definition of consciousness then you may be able to make a coherent case for such a proposition, by examining whether the definition "onl...
No. Information does not just simply reside in your mind. There is an information flow between things - connecting and relating them. We are an evolvi...
Where does logic come from? In logic, can we put the information together as we would like to, or are we constrained to put it together the way that i...
Yes that is what I mean. In human consciousness, frequencies and vibrations are translated to anthropocentric symbols, such as colour and sound. A sym...
Information is the only thing that fits in mind, so it is the only thing that can cause a thought ( The deeper question though is what causes the info...
I don't think we are on the same page. Ill try once more: 1 Information and energy are fundamental 2. If information and energy are fundamental, then ...
:up: Fair enough. Your understanding seems to have evolved since last we spoke, and so has mine. Information always exists over a substrate. It is the...
In the absence of a definite foundation of reality, we are constrained to conceptualize the foundation in a workable manner. A field symbolizes realit...
I don't think this works. Information is perturbations of a field. Without these perturbations a field would be flat , no information would exist, so ...
:up: Instead it is the attainment of being as a nobody, that is the goal - then one is free to follow the logic. Anthropocentric identity is the obsta...
In an evolving and emerging universe it makes better sense to say becoming, rather then being, imo. The nature of becoming is self organization. Thing...
But none can suspend them entirely! :razz: IIT agrees with this in saying every instance of integrated information possesses qualia, but doesn't expla...
Yes absolutely this is the problem. :smile: It is the problem for phenomenological approaches particularly, as whilst it is generally agreed upon that...
My point is every moment of consciousness is either too hot, or too cold, too bitter, or too sweet, is painful, or pleasurable, and sometimes is just ...
Perhaps my reply to RogueAI would be the ultimate example. To be indifferent to the situation one finds oneself in, one has to tune out of it in some ...
Imo, the only people who can be indifferent about an instance of consciousness, are people who can meditate to a depth of ineffability, where they can...
When I say emotion, I do not mean wild rapture, anger, or sadness necessarily. What I mean is that every instance of consciousness has its feeling - t...
Emotions are the soppy, mawkish feelings that we have traditionally suppressed in empirical objectivity, but in phenomenology, particularly the philos...
Definitely there is a genetic basis. Genetics creates the arena ( neural network ) and neuroplasticity facilitates the evolving self organization of i...
Is self organizing? - this I agree with, but central to the self organization is a feeling driving it, and a theory of consciousness needs to explain ...
The hard problem of consciousness is that every moment of consciousness has its feeling, that is either painful or pleasurable, thus consciousness has...
Yes, the system that integrates the information possesses consciousness, in my view. But then everything is a system, and all systems do this, so we a...
There are lots of people like you. From a quick glance of Wikipedia many people who claim aphantasia have led happy and successful lives. About 3% of ...
IIT is a computational theory of consciousness that blocks out the hard problem. Its quite a strange approach, that initially starts confidently in ph...
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