RE: A Conscious Universe
February 7, 2015 at 3:48 pm
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2015 at 3:48 pm by IATIA.)
(February 7, 2015 at 12:44 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I'm asking for ideas about a physical mechanism that could take function in disparate parts of the brain and assemble them into a singular, subjective experience. Where does the subjective agency come from?I assume that you are querying the actual source of awareness/consciousness and it's placement in the physical world?
That, my friend, is the $64,000 question of all time.
Simple:
Theist - god
Atheist - do not know
Perhaps one day we can develop a computer sophisticated enough to have an awareness and that would make it easier to study.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
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-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
