(June 22, 2009 at 1:29 pm)Anto Kennedy Wrote: My hunch would be that some sort of fundamental particle is a carrier for consciousness in the same way that electrons are carriers for digital information. Maybe it is photons, or another fundamental, primary particle which we haven't discovered yet.
Sounds like wishful thinking to me (not much different from the daft way metaphysicists define mind as being in some way separate from the body/brain) ... the available evidence indicates that thought (including consciousness) is an electrochemical based phenomenon.
(June 22, 2009 at 1:29 pm)Anto Kennedy Wrote: The brain wouldn't generate consciousness, but has evolved to capture it and use it to aid in survival. Same principle as eating food, but with energy instead of matter.
Why?
(June 22, 2009 at 1:29 pm)Anto Kennedy Wrote: Think of it as a universal WiFi signal which we're all connecting too. We aren't linked together, but we all connect to the same broadcast node to do our individual browsing......gotta stop smoking weed.
Still sounds like hogwash to me.
Kyu
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