Saved by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality
Reality is not, therefore, an objective "out there," but a subjective "in here," and is different for everyone. So what does that make you? Are you explicit flesh and bone anchored in a solid world, or are you an implicit blur of holographic patterns playing in a vast swirl of larger patterns? And what is the role of consciousne
... See moreTony Stubbs • An Ascension Handbook
Claudia Dawson added
Is reality what we are able to confirm with our five senses? As New Scientist magazine noted some years back, “This answer ignores such problematic entities as electrons, the recession and the number 5,” not to mention a heap of phantom limbs.
Brooke Gladstone • The Trouble With Reality
Margaret Leigh added
As science becomes more unified, it is to be hoped that we can explain consciousness as well as idealized physical situations, following the current threads of quantum mechanics that have made it clear that the observer’s decisions are closely linked to the evolution of physical systems.
Robert Lanza • Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
To return to the issue of subjectivity, consider: is the reinstantiated mind the same consciousness as the person we just scanned? But it is not easily resolved, or even readily understood. How do we distinguish a process that is conscious from one that just acts as if it is conscious?We can’t simply ask it. If it says “Hey I’m conscious,” does tha... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Juan Orbea added
Science requires a third-person perspective, but consciousness is experienced solely from the first-person point of view. In philosophy this is referred to as the problem of other minds.
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
“There can be no experience of the world without the experiencer and that, my dear friends, is us.”
“Before anyone can make theories or get data or have ideas about the world, there must be the raw presence of being-in-the-world. The world doesn’t appear in the abstract to a disembodied perspective floating in space… it appears to us, exactly where ... See more
“Before anyone can make theories or get data or have ideas about the world, there must be the raw presence of being-in-the-world. The world doesn’t appear in the abstract to a disembodied perspective floating in space… it appears to us, exactly where ... See more
Adam Gamwell and added
The first citation given concerns the “uniqueness problem,” which emphasizes a result long known by those of us who worked on IIT: that in systems that have mathematically perfectly symmetric interactions (the specifics are complicated, but just imagine this like a geometric shape), IIT gives conflicting answers as to the boundaries of the consciou... See more
Erik Hoel • Ambitious theories of consciousness are not "scientific misinformation"
Faith Hahn added
Let’s consider the issue of just who I am, and who the new Ray is a little more carefully. Like the water in a stream, my particles are constantly changing, but the pattern that people recognize as Ray has a reasonable level of continuity. After each procedure, I claim to be the same guy. If we talk about consciousness as just a certain type of int... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Juan Orbea added