Tim,
Are we a node, or a network? Is your brain a bunch of neurons, or the connections between them? It's not just friends and lovers. You make connections with everyone you meet. Attraction, repulsion, complimentary, cancelling, etc. You affect your world as your world affects you. We are neurons in the larger mind. Like fingers on a hand.
John
What the brain does, or indeed any other function associated with the subsequent processing of what was physically received, is irrelevant to physics. The physical circumstance is extrinsic and independent of brains, eyes, etc, etc. To put it simply, if the entirety of sentient organisms was extermintated, physical existence would still continue, there would just be no entity to be aware of it.
Paul
Paul,
Tim was discussing consciousness.
To which I've had a number of similar experiences to which he referred, in that it did very much seemed as if two bodies were one mind.
I do not want to be stubborn, but after reading all your productive posts where I searched for the quintessence of consciousness, I did not find it.
Each critic was touched, but we did not get further, just try another way of thinking and interpretation ogf consciousness... pls read "THE CONSCIOUSNESS CONNECTION", here I deduct that our consciousness is acting in the "future" of our causal life line to make observations "reality".
The basis is scientific but the results are metaphysical, just because of the fact the what cannot be "proven" is always meta...
Wilhelmus
John
And what is consciousness then? Anything associated wiuth the subsequent processing of the physical input received is irrelevant to physics. Physical existence is not a function of how sentient organisms perceive it.
Paul
Paul,
you asked what is consciousness? Interesting question. 'Consciousness' is one of those words that means different things to different people. Therefore the word ought to be used, in a scientific context, with an accompanying definition to avoid misunderstanding of intended meaning.
There is a fun survey being conducted on the "information is beautiful" website Consciousness survey It gives 12 different options.
Georgina
Much as it is an area of interest, like many aspects of the brain, it was a rhetorical question. I made the point "What the brain does, or indeed any other function associated with the subsequent processing of what was physically received, is irrelevant to physics". John responded that the point being discused was about "consciousness".
Paul
Paul,
Thank you!
Thanks again for reading my essay!
NOW OF PHYSICS - time is real but it has only a mathematical existence....
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241279328_NOW_OF_PHYSICS?ev=prf_pubAttachment #1: NOW_OF_PHYSICS.pdf
What is consciousness? I was reading a website of people who talk about their experiences with astral projection. Beyond the intellectual snobbery of skeptics, there was something interesting to learn here. Some people could astral project routinely, while other people would have very tenuous and difficult to sustain astral projections. It was as if the body somehow felt like it needed the "consciousness" the way a fearful child needs the attention of a parent or a trusted adult. When the body needed consciousness to "pay attention", it would block, shut down and end the AP.
Time is what Kant called the act of spontaneity which generates the representation 'I think'. This act performs synthesis. I.e. time is mind processing information. Space is the medium where information is processed.
https://www.academia.edu/7347240/Our_Cognitive_Fra
mework_as_Quantum_Computer_Leibnizs_Theory_of_Monads_under_K
ants_Epistemology_and_Hegelian_Dialectic
Could you please provide some reference to the following claim: "Disturbances in timing processes can contribute to the symptoms of a number of major disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, and depression." I'm especially interesting in connection with the latest one: depression.
Many thanks in advance.