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Thank you Count Timothy, that is sort of interesting but I recently watched this Royal Institute lecture by David Tong, Professor of Theoretical Physi...

So consciousness is a feedback system? I'm afraid I don't get it. I know the brain has many feedback systems, but there's a lot more to it than that. ...

What does the information do in addition to what the electrons do?

What's the relevance to consciousness or the mind?

There's an error in this Tim, could you correct it so I can understand?

I'm not sure why you're asking these interesting questions. I don't think those processes do "express" increases in complexity. A little more explanat...

You'll understand that "electrochemical impulses" is shorthand for all the brain processes. In my son's lab they were able to identify individual neur...

And how does perception take place? It's those electrochemical impulses (not information) travelling along the optic nerve, for example. And what caus...

Yes, we do think about those. That is to say, they are something in our minds. Not something in the computer. But it isn't. It's something you can't s...

How does the semantic information reach our minds?

The present discussion is already littered with very straightforward examples of what I mean. In a digital computer the work is done by electrical cur...

Oh dear what a shame. Couldn't you just find one teeny example in "Information Ontology" where information does some work?

Could you provide an actual case where information does something? I know people constantly use the term, but I've yet to see an example where "inform...

Can you give an example where information does work?

Maybe we could get one of these physicists in and they could explain what for example "information" actually does, in addition to what atoms and suchl...

Well do you mind not putting that rhetoric in my mouth? You don't know enough about me to talk about "folk like yourself". I haven't said any of that ...

I think you're misunderstanding. "DNA causes appropriate proteins to be formed" is not a commentary on the process, it is the process. "DNA causes app...

So here's Count Tim using "meaning" in a way that doesn't explain anything new, in much the same way people misuse "information". When you've said "so...

But it's also 1. not necessary to understand genetics and 2. not an element of the process. DNA causes appropriate proteins to be formed. "Encodes" is...

Suppose you suggested that to a highly intelligent alien as an explanation of DNA. Would the alien then be equipped to go off to its spaceship and rep...

Would you like to say in the broadest terms what Friston is about? From my own very limited knowledge I believe that certain aspects of vision make us...

My assertion is that it's being used in such a way that it doesn't explain anything. The particle physics and the chemistry levels do each explain som...

Thank you Theorem. Yes, I completely agree about that. Wikipedia says: A heuristic, or heuristic technique, is any approach to problem solving or self...

Good morning Count Timothy. DNA does not pass on meaning or information. Everything it does can be described in terms of biochemistry. When you've des...

The meaning of the software is not intrinsic to the computer. It's in the minds of outside observers. By contrast, the semantic patterns and categorie...

My question is, what does the "informational" account tell us about the phenomenon, in addition to what the biochemical account tells us?

Oh come on Josh, that's an hour long video! Is my position not clear from the simple argument I've put forward? Do you have any response to that? Do y...

And yet, it's not a point you're able to respond to. If you think "information" does something in addition to what the nucleic acids and proteins do, ...

Argument from incredulity, also known as argument from personal incredulity, appeal to common sense, or the divine fallacy, is a fallacy in informal l...

Not at all. I'm arguing that semiosis and DNA are in different ontological categories, whereas marsupial and kangaroo are in the same category. What d...

Not everyone. Firstly I don't think genes do (or did) produce life. They have vital roles in development, functioning, growth and reproduction, but th...

Semiosis can be defined as "the process of signification in language or literature". Or "an action or process involving the establishment of a relatio...

I don't see why consciousness couldn't be explained. The question is, "how does feeling or experience arise from processes in the brain (and body)?" A...

This doesn't explain anything.

This post doesn't progress the discussion.

This fascinating lecture https://youtu.be/zNVQfWC_evg tells us that "everything is fields", rather than, say, particles. So everything can be understo...

This article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538094/ explains that the Neural Binding Problem comprises "at least four distinct problems...

Thank you Eugene, that is clearer.

You do not write with clarity. Most of the time it seems like you are just making stuff up. Ion currents running parallel are not the only thing happe...

Also, you might consider this, from earlier in the discussion: So Garrett, you asked for support for my assertion that the brain doesn't work through ...

Do you have a reference of some kind for that?

I don't think it has much to do with "space" as such bert1, that's more of a metaphor.

Wow that is really interesting to me. Consciousness Explained was one of the first books I read on Philosophy of Mind, and I naively took what Dennett...

I have read a bit of Bennett and Hacker, and I was left scratching my head and wondering what they were getting so uptight about. When people say the ...

Right. So you can see all these marvellous things that I can't. And yet, I seem to be managing ok. And I'm not the one who wasted five years of his on...

How does that tie in with your assertion that you "have never been religious for a single day"?

Well, I think you may be falling into the trap of adopting the Cartesian categorisation of elements of existence. But how does that account for your s...

My mind, as I mentioned.

Alkis Piskas.

I've got a body that can do things like pushing the keys on the piano, and I've got a mind that can do things like appreciating the emotional tension ...