Of course we know what consciousness consists of. We’ve known for at least the past ten years. The effort of teaching the average person enough neurology so that can they understand it is a bit of work, but I’m producing a course on it, and the research is all out there. Even a populist like Michio Kaku answers the question. Kuhn makes a living NOT answering the question of consciousness, and interviewing marginal characters (mostly old folks) and many of whom are intellectually embarrassing (philosophers and theologians) – thereby preserving the supernatural bias in the majority population while satisfying curiosity among both materialists, idealists, and supernaturalists. Roger Penrose has a particular strength in that he follows einstein and uses mental models in addition to his mathematics. But otherwise, Roger is a mathematical platonist. Most physicists are stuck in what we call ‘mathiness’ – no mental model. The research on consciousness is done today by those of us who rely on both neurology and computer science to reproduce it. In simple terms, consciousness is just the merger of sensation with memory of memory into a competitive set of predictions. Qualia is just a vast parallel hierarchy of variations on embodiment. Consciousness is simple. Most of our brain predicts a continuously updated (revised) world model, then indexes salient experiences as episodes, and predicts candidate episodes from a competition between episodes, and we regulate that function with attention. When people say consciousness is an illusion that implies an observer that doesn’t exist. The only observer is a hierarchy of memory that we perceive as constant, just like we perceive movies as constant. The root “you” is in the brain stem that’s concerned about orientation, homeostasis, and reward-seeking. All the “you” in the sense you know yourself is distributed around the neocortex as memories. The experience of being you is integrated across the brain and organized into the hippocampal region. Qualia is rather trivial to explain from there onward. If you were to ask if other species would experience the same qualia we can only say that their qualia would be understandable if they were at least able to communicate at our level. But that vibrations in the universe whether through solids, gasses, space, and from subsonic to sonic to electromagnetic, would be the same. Some people see impossible colors even today. Some are color blind. A different creature might experience time differently (faster or slower), or instead of having two hemispheres might have, four, or six, or eight (or more) – and that would be the only substantive difference. But to ACT in the real world generates demand for convergence on similar range of senses and qualia.
Theme: Causality
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@Jerry1776 There was no creation. There was only evolution. There is no possibil
@Jerry1776 There was no creation. There was only evolution. There is no possibilty of a will outside of the organization of the universe. And as far as we can tell the universe is either eternal, eternally cycilcal, or the concept of sequence in time is irrelevant since there is no time without the universe itself.
Do you deny all the accumulated evidence of our observations, in order to defend your malinvestment in a jewish lie?
Source date (UTC): 2021-03-03 00:38:23 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/105823070015064891
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@Graphic @GeneralJackDRipper If you knew what you were talking about you’d know
@Graphic@GeneralJackDRipper If you knew what you were talking about you’d know where do know where the first photon came from. 😉 We do not know yet (although we will rather soon) which of the universe cycles that started this iteration. (And that’s before we talk about whether time has a beginning or has no meaning outside of space time – so far it doesn’t.)
And that’s before we get to the fact that (a) there is no where or nothing to contain a deity (b) nowhere in the spectrum of energy for a deity to act.
And that’s before we get to the fact that we can’t find any evidence of a single miracle.
And that’s before we get to the fact that jesus was one of hundreds of so called prophets at the time.
And that’s before we get to the fact that the jewish method of lying is that of mothers providing comforting lies to children.
Of that the jewish method of creating the abrahamic religions depends on the vulnerability of humans to mothers comforting lies.
And that’s before we get to the fact that religious devotion appears to be a genetic weakness. And that the devotional behavior is identical to the addiction response.
But it doesn’t matter. Every single christian claim about the structure of the universe has been false. You just keep reaching in order to defend your self delusions by social cosntruction.
The clock is ticking. You’re being defeated world wide. Christianity is now a third world religion of people below the minimum IQ curve for mechanical operation and repair.
You are a sad pathetic group of losers being crushed by superior religions, philosophies, ideologies, and the painful truth of science.
There is only one lesson to learn: We know most of the fundamental laws of the universe and within a visible time horizon will know the rest. ANd those formal, physical, cooperative, and evolutionary laws are consistent and coherent, and complete. And they are all but hostile to life.
Jesus’ message was a counter-revolution against continuous defeat by superior peoples. Aryanism was the greatest revolution in history at that time. But instead of using the peasants for slave labor, it threatend to leave them behind in a cruel world of reason, evidence, and science. And as such jesus correctly identified the correct solution: Love in the present was the only method of tolerating evolution over time.
But the jews – liars all – created a cult of hatred of aryanism and aryans (whether european or iranic) out of what was a lesson in love instead.
Source date (UTC): 2021-03-02 20:23:37 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/105822068231219214
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(a) It’s hereditary (b) it appears to be developmental (c) stress and trauma cau
(a) It’s hereditary (b) it appears to be developmental (c) stress and trauma cause it to manifest or exacerbate it (d) modern life exacerbates it dramatically. (Too much disorder.)
Source date (UTC): 2021-03-02 00:25:54 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1366545263117139968
Reply addressees: @foradeadgirI
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1366510757664280579
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It’s not hard for us to imagine that the Cerebellum coordinates complex actions
It’s not hard for us to imagine that the Cerebellum coordinates complex actions by many muscles in time and space. But the Hippocampal region coordinates time, space, speed, orientation, objects, and location into a world model we can’t introspect on either. It’s the same thing.
Source date (UTC): 2021-03-01 19:39:52 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1366473280765513730
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@Graphic I can’t help you. We know the organization of the universe, and we know
@Graphic I can’t help you. We know the organization of the universe, and we know it’s approximate beginning and approximate end. Although until we know the underlying geometry we won’t know if anything can be done about it or ourselves.
We know why some people developed religion, some wisdom literature, and some people philosophy and some people science. We know why some people are prone to drug and alcohol abuse, we know why some people are prone to religiosity, and we know why some people are prone to be free of all of the above.
You need your addiction. That’s ok. But I don’t need it. A decreasing number of people need it. And its likely it will be replaced by something less absurd, but providing the same services.
So please don’t pretend you are even vaguely capable of such discussions. You aren’t. And you are wasting my time trying to protect the social acceptability of your addiction.
So stop wasting my time.
Source date (UTC): 2021-03-01 04:00:40 UTC
Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/105812540794617393
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Posts are not papers. They are just simple sketches for public consumption. The
Posts are not papers. They are just simple sketches for public consumption. The ‘secrets’ were hierarchical recursive memory, ’embodiment’ as commensurability, and that all calculated fragments calculated by position).
https://propertarianinstitute.com/2019/08/30/the-rules-of-consciousness/
Source date (UTC): 2021-02-28 13:02:08 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1366010799848894464
Reply addressees: @MindTrained @BernardoKastrup
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1365937372538441729
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INDETERMINACY is rather obvious because causality is infinite but consequence is
INDETERMINACY is rather obvious because causality is infinite but consequence is local, and we don’t know the underlying geometry of the universe, and the category of math we use today appears unable to deduce it. Only one group works on discovering geometry by trial and error.
Source date (UTC): 2021-02-26 15:35:10 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1365324535667568640
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In P-Law we describe this effect as Ternary logic. When we cover the brain I try
In P-Law we describe this effect as Ternary logic. When we cover the brain I try to explain why ternary systems evolve in nature: because nature doesn’t have memory. So the. ‘third option’ functions as a measure of either extreme axis failure. It’s also computationally optimal. https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1364959333101010951
Source date (UTC): 2021-02-25 16:05:05 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1364969676254679042
https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1364959333101010951
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Melanin is a proxy for the generation of homo sapien, by the sequence of gradual
Melanin is a proxy for the generation of homo sapien, by the sequence of gradual isolation, reversal of melanin, and increase in neoteny as we encountered the cold. It’s not a cause. It’s a correlative of evolutionary domestication.
Source date (UTC): 2021-02-24 16:50:16 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1364618657943420929
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