https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...nd-everything/
that's kind of wild...the question of how conscious arises is a major question in science. it's up there with unifying gravity with quantum physics, or finding intelligent life on other planets. can machines become conscious or is there some biological quantum mechanical limit that would prevent pure machines from becoming conscious?
i was just mostly fooling around wondering if i could come up with some reasons to believe the universe is conscious. i didn't know there are scientists and doctors that might take the idea seriously. so i guess what they are saying is possibly all of us are multiple personalities of one universe. had some interesting words.
“constitutive panpsychism,” matter already has experience from the get-go, not just when it arranges itself in the form of brains. Even subatomic particles possess some very simple form of consciousness. Our own human consciousness is then (allegedly) constituted by a combination of the subjective inner lives of the countless physical particles that make up our nervous system.
it makes me think of those nature shows, but instead of watching lions it's watching electrons..
in a whispering voice..'here is the electron in it's natural environment. see how it instinctively moves towards an ionized atom. it's scoping out it's valence shell right now. Oh no! a positron has just wandered in from nowhere. ZAP!!!! ...difficult to watch.
lol
In 2015, doctors in Germany reported the extraordinary case of a woman who suffered from what has traditionally been called “multiple personality disorder” and today is known as “dissociative identity disorder” (DID). The woman exhibited a variety of dissociated personalities (“alters”), some of which claimed to be blind. Using EEGs, the doctors were able to ascertain that the brain activity normally associated with sight wasn’t present while a blind alter was in control of the woman’s body, even though her eyes were open. Remarkably, when a sighted alter assumed control, the usual brain activity returned.
i was just mostly fooling around wondering if i could come up with some reasons to believe the universe is conscious. i didn't know there are scientists and doctors that might take the idea seriously. so i guess what they are saying is possibly all of us are multiple personalities of one universe. had some interesting words.
“constitutive panpsychism,” matter already has experience from the get-go, not just when it arranges itself in the form of brains. Even subatomic particles possess some very simple form of consciousness. Our own human consciousness is then (allegedly) constituted by a combination of the subjective inner lives of the countless physical particles that make up our nervous system.
it makes me think of those nature shows, but instead of watching lions it's watching electrons..
in a whispering voice..'here is the electron in it's natural environment. see how it instinctively moves towards an ionized atom. it's scoping out it's valence shell right now. Oh no! a positron has just wandered in from nowhere. ZAP!!!! ...difficult to watch.
lol
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