RE: My thoughts on the Hard problem of consciousness
February 12, 2017 at 11:13 pm
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2017 at 11:14 pm by Aegon.)
(February 12, 2017 at 9:25 pm)Won2blv Wrote: Lets assume that every product of evolution, no matter how far evolved, always started in the evolutionary tree, with a very rudimentary function or use, which in turn began to evolve to become sophisticated. It would be like those Russian Nesting dolls, but that would mean that every product of biological evolution, like, ears, eyes, feet, blood, guts, bones, trees, viruses, cows, jellyfish… you name it, they all have a common ancestor at some point of the evolutionary tree. Down to the stump, whatever it was, and however it got here. So in a woo like way, but also in a literal way, we are connected to all of life. We are more connected with some because of how much closer we are in that line of nesting dolls. Again, I know this is woo sounding, but there is a shared energy between every living thing in the world. I think that the energy we feel is a mix between memories and emotions.
I believe that we were conscious, the second a single celled organism split into two. For the first time in Life's history, it made an advancement that would make it more efficient. Living was the goal of evolution, and efficiency was the tool. Consciousness, could very well be the first evolutionary advancement. Because some how, some way, a single celled organism that doesn’t even know why he, or she, or they, are here, but was somehow able, to use his environment around him to create something new. We know everything, that, seems tangible in our brain is merely just an image. But sometimes, we think to highly of our conscious ability. We understand that some organisms have displayed acts of being conscious but we are perplexed that ours, feels almost, special.
But remember, every product of evolution, had an early pioneer. You could play a game of 6 degrees to any living organism. The pinky finger on your left hand, has a finite degree of separation in the evolutionary tree from, say, a leaf. And every single living thing has a center line that we are all grounded in, a foundation shared by trees, bugs, bacteria, jellyfish, and whatever weird living thing you can think of. We (organisms) are all connected to that original big nesting doll, our Self. It realized that IT was the center of its own universe.
I get what you're saying here, being the psuedo-Taoist I am. Inter-connectivity of live and nature is something I "believe" in. But you lost me with everything after that. I don't see the relation to the "problem of hard consciousness."