RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
January 6, 2019 at 11:49 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2019 at 11:50 pm by bennyboy.)
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Even IF you think that consciousness is of the brain, exactly what level of organization it supervenes on matters. From smallest to largest, it could be that:
1) All energetic interchange allows for awareness. So every single release or reception of a photon or electron might be associated with a "subatomic spark of consciousness," so to speak.
2) The most essential awareness might supervene on the neuronal level-- which could mean that only organic systems can be conscious.
3) Any complex self-referential processing which models both the external environment and some kind of internal state could be conscious..
4) It could be that very specific functions, as seen in complex brains, must be all be represented in order to allow for consciousness.
Given the complexities of quantum mechanics, it seems not unreasonable to me to suppose that literally ALL matter may have the capacity to interact with its environment in a gnostic way, i.e. that there really is no separation of mind and matter at all, which would mean that mind is not actually a supervenient property, but rather a brute fact, a true peer to material existence.
Even IF you think that consciousness is of the brain, exactly what level of organization it supervenes on matters. From smallest to largest, it could be that:
1) All energetic interchange allows for awareness. So every single release or reception of a photon or electron might be associated with a "subatomic spark of consciousness," so to speak.
2) The most essential awareness might supervene on the neuronal level-- which could mean that only organic systems can be conscious.
3) Any complex self-referential processing which models both the external environment and some kind of internal state could be conscious..
4) It could be that very specific functions, as seen in complex brains, must be all be represented in order to allow for consciousness.
Given the complexities of quantum mechanics, it seems not unreasonable to me to suppose that literally ALL matter may have the capacity to interact with its environment in a gnostic way, i.e. that there really is no separation of mind and matter at all, which would mean that mind is not actually a supervenient property, but rather a brute fact, a true peer to material existence.
