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What God, Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness Have in Common
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"
We mistakenly assume that the present is merely a continuation of the past, a predictable outcome of previous actions.
But what if we’re looking in the wrong direction? What if the true nature of reality lies not in the quantized past, but in the ever-present, unquantifiable now?
Sebastian Schepis • The Unquantifiable You: Why Physics Can’t Capture Consciousness
IN MODERN thought the awareness that there is something out there that we are not yet awake enough to see is the engine that drives the investigative mind. Relentless and systematic questioning: this is the spirit of scientific intelligence. In this spirit we dissect to see what connects, we dismember to understand the whole, we kill to catch life
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