CONSCIOUSNESS —“How far back down the complexity spectrum do you think the fun

CONSCIOUSNESS

—“How far back down the complexity spectrum do you think the function/structure of consciousness goes?”— A friend

I think the variation in ‘how far back down’ is in (a) the scale of memory accessed, (b) the sample time between memory accesses.

And I think consciousness is simply the experience of continuous change in state across the layers (old, middle, new brain).

My experience with regaining consciousness is extensive and consistent: as each bit of recall is restored, more ‘you’ is restored, and so is the ‘time horizon’ of change in state that you experience that you and I call ‘consciousness’.

I mean. from that perspective it’s actually pretty simple.

I am fairly certain this reductio explanation is so close that further refinement will be in the form of precision not falsification.

At the very deepest level, the first level of awareness, is simply responds to feelings good and bad, but that is all. I like this I don’t like this. Then layer after layer awakens and that basic feeling simply has access to richer and richer content over longer and longer periods.