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This quantifies the information in the system, but does not tell us what information is.
August 24, 2021 at 04:53
That is a great point! The distinction between order and entropy is the information in the system. That is very much the same as the distinction of th...
August 23, 2021 at 21:14
:up: Yes, and it causes a change in the sender and recipients brain state, thus changing them. And through an ongoing process of such informing, we ev...
August 23, 2021 at 20:37
I have a short theory of consciousness. It is badly in need of renovation, but it might give you some clues. Ultimately you have to do something like ...
August 23, 2021 at 20:18
How information shapes and changes us might be another thread. Am a bit pooped at the moment. :smile:
August 23, 2021 at 04:50
This was explained to you previously, but in an edit, so you may have missed it.
August 23, 2021 at 04:30
Information can be simply defined as the opposite of a blank sheet of paper minus the writing on it So: ( paper - writing )opposite = information. or ...
August 23, 2021 at 04:27
No, I take a** third person perspective and first person perspective into account and I can see the abyss at its end. Hence my guess with the anthropi...
August 23, 2021 at 03:40
:up: ....Very nice. thank you for your comment. Are there limits on the minimum amount of information?.... According to my model that would be impossi...
August 23, 2021 at 01:01
DNA. Code. 100 odd volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica worth . :smile:
August 23, 2021 at 00:48
In other words - who does the thinking? - the thing that integrates the information - my best guess is the anthropic principle. What is your best gues...
August 22, 2021 at 23:56
:up: Aint that the truth! :sad:
August 22, 2021 at 23:16
It is the belief of phenomenology, and the philosophical zombie argument.
August 22, 2021 at 23:13
No not faith. Just take a look around yourself and understand all this was once quantum foam. Please reread my previous post to you, and point out whe...
August 22, 2021 at 23:11
:up: How about that?
August 22, 2021 at 04:42
They are different expression for the same thing. I don't think we can get into too much trouble by using brain states. I need to go now, but will be ...
August 22, 2021 at 04:41
You pretty much understand the gist of it! :up: It also would say brain states exist in a sequence of moments. And it attempts to measure them, but to...
August 22, 2021 at 04:37
:up: Are you familiar with Integrated Information Theory?
August 22, 2021 at 04:29
No offence intended. Yes that works for me. I would also include the information from the body as part of the brain state.
August 22, 2021 at 04:20
I think you are describing a shift in self here? Yes the self can shift slightly in how it relates to all this. And, I think, this occurs in tiny incr...
August 22, 2021 at 04:15
But your body also contributes to the state of this, doesn't it? I think our total form, all of the information that our body possesses contributes to...
August 22, 2021 at 03:52
Possibility seems to be very organized and systematic. I think we should leave it to her. But if she doesn't respond soon just do whatever you feel li...
August 22, 2021 at 03:38
Yes! Yes! you got it. I love it!
August 22, 2021 at 02:56
As a monist, panpsychist, I would argue the first form of information is form itself. This is what seems to be evolving, creating everything in it's p...
August 22, 2021 at 02:47
Thanks, neat :smile:
August 22, 2021 at 02:28
How do you link a post, pls?
August 22, 2021 at 00:17
Politics of paradigm? He makes a case for information as a fundamental observable, non measurable quantity. Every cellular structure then is code and ...
August 22, 2021 at 00:06
Semiotics implies a dualism. One has to drop the idea of a mind ( interpretor ) in cellular biology to make any sense of it - that is what Barbeiri wa...
August 21, 2021 at 23:39
Information enables the interaction of form. It doesn't go anywhere ( does not become immaterial ) since everything is situated and interrelated, evol...
August 21, 2021 at 23:26
Nowhere. It is a noThing before it becomes form. If you were to say mind was integrated information, and integrated information is equal to form, then...
August 21, 2021 at 23:13
I don't think so. If you consider it in terms of evolutionary psychology, where language evolved before self awareness, and then a subsequent self con...
August 21, 2021 at 23:05
That is a good point. I would like to hear Kenosha's opinion also. The way I would reason it is: I would ask what is a thermal microstate to you, If n...
August 21, 2021 at 22:34
Banno, I'm sure you could find us something that is not information? And whilst your at it, what is your theory of everything?
August 21, 2021 at 22:12
You would be correct that I don't understand the math. :sad: My understanding comes from a different perspective, and I cited that paper, as well as a...
August 21, 2021 at 21:52
:up: That is a better explanation, thanks. We should also say it is not absolutely a done deal, but seems like it might be. :smile: **The actual conve...
August 21, 2021 at 21:23
You are looking for inconsistencies in my argument, and I appreciate it. Testing for inconsistencies and cracks is so difficult to do on ones own. How...
August 21, 2021 at 20:52
My reply to you was clumsy. I wanted to make the point that emotions are the lynchpin of one's philosophy. Emotions, enable experience, and without ex...
August 21, 2021 at 19:52
I don't think it is about us Possibility ( nonanthropocentric ). I think it is about the creation of form. In the creation of more and more complex fo...
August 21, 2021 at 05:45
How about, an ordered state has form, and information **is the interaction of form. Information is the interaction of form in systems, and information...
August 20, 2021 at 23:08
Neural correlates is a commonly used expression, of course I'm referring to the neuroplasticity of the brain, and as I said I am assuming that a chang...
August 20, 2021 at 21:14
For me, monism means everything is made of the same substance, and we can describe that substance as energy + matter + information, or any other confi...
August 20, 2021 at 20:59
This is a description of the effects of emotions. Not a description of what emotions are. Emotions are what we feel deep down. We never take side agai...
August 20, 2021 at 20:35
I'm trying to point out that in the process of exchanging information two interacting systems get changed. Change is the necessary thing that needs to...
August 20, 2021 at 20:24
The point they are making is that Energy = mass = information. That paper was found in a rush. This paper is a better source. "John Archibald Wheeler ...
August 20, 2021 at 20:10
The various forms of sanity that we see, is the highest form of reality that there is! :halo: It is a reality that we create ourselves. In Yogic Logic...
August 20, 2021 at 04:00
See my reply to Gnomon above your post.
August 20, 2021 at 02:37
You are describing the forming of energy into more complex forms, that we conceptualize as elementary particles, that form atoms, that form molecules,...
August 20, 2021 at 02:02
:up: Welcome to the forum. :smile:
August 20, 2021 at 01:42
You have come a long way in those three months. :up: A sign of high intelligence.
August 20, 2021 at 01:29
:rofl: :rofl: That is the truth of it!! most of our thinking is determined, it maintains its determined momentum, except for random variation!!! That ...
August 20, 2021 at 01:25