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Is a big bang low entropy? :nerd:

:up: Yep. So, we create our own reality? We create ourselves? - within physical constraints, including the constraint of being a node in a lineage of ...

Perhaps I should have said a theory of everything , that everybody agrees on, like E=mc2. :smile: "Kant had a tripartite doctrine of the a priori. He ...

Yeah, Its like within our belief system we have a self awareness, but belief systems are not fact / truth systems. They have a probabilistic validity,...

Yeah, I will definitely look into him some more, Thanks. He talks complexity , but it seems he really wants to analyze and reduce, and who wouldn't, b...

Thanks for the comprehensive explanation. This is to do with epistemology. I take my cue from Piaget's constructivism which was developed mainly throu...

Thanks for the referral. Wolfram is an interesting thinker, I will pursue his ideas some more. He doesn't quite use the words self organization, but i...

Thanks, I'll check it out tonight.

That is how I understand it also - there are pockets of order. The entropy argument needs a universal boundary, and as I mentioned to 3017amen John Wh...

Good point. I guess this is based on Kant's pure reason? This is applicable to all and every thought. It is really a criticism of dualism. As a monist...

I wonder what your definition of metaphysics is? The difficulty is that any definition of consciousness has to work for all instances of consciousness...

Sorry, I did miss that. @"Pantagruel" put me onto Autopoisis some time ago, and I am was very grateful to learn of the embodied movement. Matera, Thom...

Psychology originated by Piaget and Kelly. Very popular outside the US. The conscious and the subconscious are not necessarily in conflict. Recent res...

I'm not sure I understand you. As a living organism you need to self organize. You need to create a self, If you are to avoid fragmentation. Internall...

Consciousness is a convoluted thing indeed. This is why I prefer to call it self organization. We are not entirely free to self organize according to ...

Great, then we can discuss / speculate on what causes self organization? Certainly we are the ones integrating the information at our disposal ( which...

:up: I think that hits the nail on the head . It's a great topic, but I agree with @"Xtrix" in that it lacks definition. We are considering one indefi...

Something like you suggest is a very distinct possibility, in my opinion. There seems to be a mechanism that drives integrity, or order from the word ...

I'm glad that you agree. :smile:

It hasn't gone anywhere. It has equalized: Wikipedia -" Heat death does not imply any particular absolute temperature; it only requires that temperatu...

I think you have answered your own question. You are a pattern of energy / matter at any given moment ( now ) . It is not a fixed pattern, it evolves ...

Good luck with that. :smile: I would be interested in an example?

Phenomenology may be a topic of interest to you.

Thanks for the link. You must see something more in this then I do. I cant help thinking CERN in its 11 years and 51 Hedrons has not achieved much. At...

Philosophy is information about the philosophers consciousness. So it is not so much that philosophy is vague, but that the consciousness of the philo...

:up: Thanks for that.

Reading over my previous comment I can see where the misunderstanding is. I was really meaning Cartesian dualism, where the mind is immaterial, and al...

I think there is a collective of some kind, be it culture, or humanity, perhaps now social media, but we relate to it individually. As you say, you cr...

I don't think it is such a big leap. I think the complexity being described by cellular imaging in recent years really brings home the fact that Duali...

Please feel free to add to the discussion, and please provide a link to your description of consciousness. In my understanding, self organization = co...

We don't have a collective reality. We create our personal reality from the beliefs we hold to be true. We each have a personal reality - as is eviden...

In Yogic logic you always create your own reality from the beliefs you hold to be true. But a belief is not part of the set of 'what is true', :sad: U...

Language is communication. Without the narrative the video would not have communicated much to me. With the narrative, what was communicated was somet...

If this was true then nothing would be reliable, as everything reduces down to a drawing of conclusions from patterns (of information). It is the logi...

I suppose it is difficult to understand if you are unfamiliar with information and self organization theory. It is not necessary to understand them fu...

I knew you would understand, and I imagine there is only us two left who are interested. And I think we have reached a rough understanding of how life...

If everything is subject to interrelational evolution ( and I can not see how it can not be ) then so would be the emergent property of action. When i...

I don't see how? It may explain the cause of asymmetry giving rise to matter, if confirmed in ten years time or so, but otherwise nothing new. Everyth...

If information preservation is fundamental, then everything is integrating information. This is consistent with the modern definition of consciousness...

This would be sensational! But it has been 11 years and nobody has replicated it, and it seems a very simple experiment to replicate, so I don't have ...

However, I find your historical writing very interesting and look forward to reading it. :smile:

I can see several logical problems with your statement. Firstly: Humanity is not the only evidential life in the universe! We are only one of a myriad...

Can you elaborate on this a little? I can see how all elements of the system must continue to evolve interrelationaly, in order to preserve the system...

That is true, mostly we don't seem to care for it, except when we realize that human cells are eukaryotic cells, and that their self organization enti...

Yes, I can see why the information would have to be preserved, and at the same time a closed system would have to move in the direction of greater com...

It is a hard topic, like consciousness, which I used to think was impossible to understand, but I found as I keep on trying I continued to make progre...

I am trying to understand consciousness. I think I have a pretty good understanding in terms of phenomenology psychology, and belief systems, and now ...

The other thing that needs to be considered in all this is emergence. How in the relationship of disparate parts something novel can emerge. ** In phy...

Yeah its interesting isn't it. We will now have to evolve to read non verbal communication entirely from facial cues, as the normal body language - th...

:up: Yes I agree to a large extent. Consciousness is something unique even between individuals - no two can have exactly the same manifestation of con...