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:up: Yes, information theory provides an insight into information being the fundamental element, and the universe thus being an information processing...

Yes, a complex adaptive system is what consciousness is. :smile: I think that would be too long. I was thinking perhaps a thousand words or less. It w...

I think you should do an article on "enformation" for the TPF. Just something short and basic, that facilitates a quick grasp of the idea.

Nick Cave and the bad seeds. I don't know about deep, but its kinda philosophical. Opium Tea Here I sleep the morning through Until the call to prayer...

I think you are missing information from your fundamentals. Information gives energy and matter form. Once something has form, it becomes integrated i...

QM, as with the rest of physics, respects the light speed limit. It follows from time dilation, which is fact rather then theory. What we are seeing h...

No offence intended. :smile:

Your theory preserves the status quo. I'm not interested in that. I think it is destructive and unsustainable. You affirm the pharaoh / slave hierarch...

It comes from the horses mouth, and he is also promising a mathematical theory of emotion! So that should be interesting. The road that you are headin...

Thanks for your input, the rich background knowledge, and particularly the "pocket of order". I'll continue to use it If you don't mind. Its been good...

Do you have an argument or are you just

Donald Hoffman has recently received tenure, and major funding. His thesis is consciousness is fundamental - it is contained in everything. Koch, Tono...

That is putting it nicely! I like it. I think it would be channeled, and also we would move into, and through it - briefly lighting it up in a self in...

An algorithmic process that has the effect you have described is a form of mind, in my understanding. There is no conscious entity behind it, but it i...

Are you asking is the information energy? It is enformation as @"Gnomon" has conceived it. We cannot separate energy and information. They always exis...

:up: Yes , I agree, evolution is a form of consciousness itself - causing other forms of emergent consciousness in its path.

I hope the Prion in the beef can not read. :lol: They can survive cooking and they cause mad cow disease. A fuller explanation of prions is available ...

In organic systems, it is determinism with a slight element of randomness. This is the take home from observation of evolving systems such as Covid19....

Perhaps you should look harder. There is a plethora of information in the fields of cellular biology, microbiology, plant neurobiology, and quantum bi...

This is a very vague magically anthropocentric notion , in my view. Biblical?

Its up to the higher consciousness to speak to the lower one in terms it understands. Give the rock a kick next time and see what it says. I'm sure it...

All those elements are present in the form of the system disturbed - in the form of the rock. The disappointment is more in that the understanding we ...

There was a time when I thought the same as you do. But in researching the topic I have moved on: By strict definition, a receptor-effector complex re...

That all things are conscious because they arise from the same process - interrelational evolution, is the most important consideration to me. Human c...

I thought you might see it this way. :smile: But thanks for all the background, very very interesting.

:up: Communication is verbal and non verbal. We still use the non verbal form of communication that creates empathy. This is the necessary aspect of c...

This is not a logical conclusion from your argument. The logical conclusion should be a neutral stance from the logic of your argument. Then when prov...

:up: No it doesn't occur spontaneously. But neither dose human consciousness. As I see it we are still locked into this singular way of being as an ev...

We don't know what emotions are. We have agreed we cannot conceptualize them. We cannot feel each others emotions. If we don't know what something is,...

None of that emergent consciousness is possible without the ordered patterns of consciousness below. It is not turtles all the way down, it is pattern...

Can God do anything? Yes, god can tie off loose ends, and plug in gaps in theories! God is truly omnipotent in this regard. :smile:

What a waste of time and money, given the result. I'll be waiting on 0 information from you. :rofl: :rofl:

In my understanding, this is the beginning of consciousness - the self ordering at the bottom level, leads to ordering in levels above. It is incredib...

I'm still waiting. Given you understand information so well, it should not be a problem to provide an instance of 0 information. :rofl: :rofl:

Note the highlighted "fundamental" in my answer. Most people would understand that information, being fundamental, is part of everything, and so canno...

Information is the fundamental element informing energy and matter, thus informed energy and matter propagate the information that gave them form. Eve...

Yes, that's how I see it. Information is inseparable from energy and matter. Metaphysics, for me, is the underlying logic of how things work - the log...

It does not mean I will now defer to your every comment, Ha,ha. :smile:

In my understanding enlightenment occurs as a result of a shift in paradigm, and effectively you are stating you have undergone a shift in paradigm. :...

Spontaneous would not be logical. Initially they are caused. The fundamental cause would be the ordered state of the universe. They could not occur in...

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They may originate as feelings of hunger or thirst, or as emotions due to cognitive process, but they resolve to feelings that are either painful or p...

:up: That fits with my view of Determinism with a slight element of randomness causing emergent properties into its progress, met by natural selection...

:up: From a systems perspective: As a self organizing system we are attuned to all those elements that we as a consciousness are not aware of. They ha...

From a systems perspective, what we are is something like a whirlpool that has formed in a fast flowing river . To what extent can it be said that the...

Time is an important element. Far from equilibrium states store energy for a future time.So they are cognizant of time from the word GO! The self orga...

There are quite a few objectors to the heat death hypothesis: From Wikipedia: " Max Planck wrote that the phrase "entropy of the universe" has no mean...

Thanks for your very thorough analysis. I was originally taken aback by your original construction as I couldn't find logical fault with it, but it di...

What about the black holes? What is dark matter and energy? How would things change if we understood the other 85%?? I like it. It seems the rate of c...

Yes that is true, but like "the beginning" one needs to find firm footing. At least atoms are not in dispute / theoretical. Unlike string theory, whic...