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There is one thing missing from the wave. It is something we attribute to ourselves, but begrudge almost everything else, and it is a stupid, stupid t...

I can not agree with this. The wave has ripples on it, the ripples are themselves waves. You are referring to experience, and the essential element of...

And all of this has to be reduced to a specific emotional symbol - a pin point - on the pain pleasure spectrum, for you to orient yourself in it. You ...

This can occur once one identifies with the universe, rather than something anthropocentric. The universe dose not die. It would indeed be a shift in ...

I like to define things, otherwise we talk past each other with different understanding of vague terms like soul, or spirit, but I can respect your wi...

I don't think Hippyhead's patterns are in conflict with what Schrödinger said. They are a different dimension, I believe. Hippyhead is describing the ...

" Hard to see, the future is" - Yoda

No disrespect was intended. What was intended was for you to consider the possibility of an infinite consciousness, and whether this violates any conc...

If consciousness is unlimited, living beings in the universe are limited only by consciousness itself. An unlimited consciousness is the most powerful...

What if the original cause is consciousness, and the ultimate effect is consciousness? And what If consciousness is infinite?

Enabling experience being the central point? I would agree with this. The words that I would use is that our mentality is constructed entirely from th...

For living creatures the pattern that persists would be RNA and DNA - expressing their patterns in a myriad of different ways. I'm not suggesting that...

Dimensionality is a great way to contemplate relational structures of information, but at the end of the day you still have to reduce your deliberatio...

That is not a bad analogy. But I said it was probably not the dominant brain. However that there is mind at the cellular level is without doubt. You h...

Ha, I wish I knew. I cannot predict such a thing unfortunately. But the rate of change of technology and progress generally is ever increasing, and we...

Perhaps you have a better understanding of it, but as far as I am aware he still cannot explain the qualia of experience, what its for, why we have it...

Oh I see. I agree with some of Hoffman's statements, but there is a lot I do not agree with, so I haven't studied his theory in depth. In my view, a t...

Unfortunately I can not give you any sources on Descartes that you can not google yourself. However I do have a short theory of consciousness that arg...

I noticed one of your links cites Gödel's incompleteness theorem as proof of solipsism, but it is actually an excellent proof of its impossibility. Gö...

The burden of proof for Solipsism, is to prove that like minded people and a real world do not exist. Good luck with that ! What proof do you have? So...

I totally agree with you in regard to the relational aspect of everything. My philosophy was weak in this area, and this conversation has helped to st...

I imagine his view would be that your analogy is correct. The notion that we are at the apex of knowledge is a view claimed many times in history, and...

It seems that you are asking is consciousness limited, and the answer would be that consciousness is only limited by consciousness itself, so it is un...

:up: you must be a football fan.

How were you born? who brought you up? who did you play with? But the best proof is when two people get together and they become greater then their su...

Nobody is cosmically alone. It is an impossibility. You cannot exist without the information surrounding you. The information surrounding you includes...

No I'm afraid we are miles apart. The issue with whether DNA is alive or not revolves around whether it is biased to be. The below video shows DNA in ...

I couldn't believe the guy could stand back and film his octopus friend being attacked by a shark. I switched off at that point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFCvkkDSfIU

Fundamentally everything is information. If we strip the matter from the universe , it is just information interacting with information, but the infor...

This is called graft vs host disease, from memory. The graft mounts an attack on the host / organ recipient.

I am with you brother, but not everybody is and for complicated reasons as is evidenced by this thread.

Come on, is your arm alive? Is your heart alive? Are you alive? Because according to your argument you are not. This is a surprise argument from you. ...

Consciousness is the central problem. It forms around and preserves the self. It is a process of self organisation. It is worth noting what the self i...

I agree with how you explain humanity, but there must be a way. Consciousness is an evolving process of self organization so it seems it will at some ...

That is a good point, and I would add, given our genetic code, is it possible to even answer this question in a non self interested way?

DNA is not only alive, it is immortal. Life is its vehicle. It is living information, and ultimately, if information is fundamental, this is what life...

In the OP I describe an instance of consciousness where information is integrated with emotion. This being the state that creates an experience, which...

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:up: we should discus this sometime.

But what if the truth is not to your liking, what then?

DNA is alive however, Is it indifferent or is it biased? If it is biased then you have to admit emotions are fundamental and essential. Yes it is both...

I don't know that sentient is the right word. I would say that DNA is information that cellular consciousness / epigenetics / RNA can read. Human DNA ...

Are you saying that DNA is indifferent? Or is DNA on a mission, and is it entirely committed to that mission? If so then DNA is biased. A bias is emot...

I don't think anybody can seriously dispute the selfish gene idea. I think, what Mary was really objecting to, was the inference that if the gene is s...

I am not a great fan of Dawkins either, however: DNA is information. It is not information that we can read, although we are making some strides along...

From Wikipedia: Midgley–Dawkins debate In volume 53 (1978) of Philosophy, the journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, J. L. Mackie published an ...

I do it by constructing a logic around consciousness, and testing the logic through introspection. Although I also have a lot of contact with animals ...

Yes easily. It was originally called junk, but we really don't yet know what it is.

Yes, this is how I also understand it, and there is nothing mystical about my thinking. DNA information is the only constant - the body and intellectu...