The universe, like our parents, births life which itself will replace that universe if successful. And expire like that universe if not. Life is deterministic. Action is deterministic. Intelligence is deterministic. Cooperation is deterministic. Self replacement is deterministic. That’s all the wonderous beauty we need.
Source date (UTC): 2017-10-23 11:52:00 UTC
Another demarcation between science and psuedoscience, which I think is the one that has been missing, is to attribute means, motive, and opportuntity to the universe that is not within it’s ‘interests’ (increasing entropy by first available means). Whereas man’s incentives (means, motive, and opportunity) are the opposite: to defeat entropy by the greatest return on investment.
Source date (UTC): 2017-10-14 11:36:00 UTC
Well, what we call consciousness: that continuous change in state between perception, search(perception-memory-prediction), focus, impulse, decision, and action – serves almost entirely as ‘the search for opportunities’ for acquisition of the host of things that are valuable to us. It’s not complicated. I am not sure why consciousness is so hard to understand. It’s not. Brains are not gears. Our various charges are affected by momentum, resistance and capacitance, and continuous iteration (echoes) create persistence of perception just as much as our eyes create persistence of vision. That’s consciousness.
Well, what we call consciousness: that continuous change in state between perception, search(perception-memory-prediction), focus, impulse, decision, and action – serves almost entirely as ‘the search for opportunities’ for acquisition of the host of things that are valuable to us. It’s not complicated. I am not sure why consciousness is so hard to understand. It’s not. Brains are not gears. Our various charges are affected by momentum, resistance and capacitance, and continuous iteration (echoes) create persistence of perception just as much as our eyes create persistence of vision. That’s consciousness.
AGENCY = POTENTIAL ENERGY
by Simon Ström
Agency = potential energy (PE)
Force = applied energy (F)
Event = Impulse (Imp), [force vector + temporal dimension]
Consequence = displacement vector (s)
Action = work (W)
Externalities = Waste heat (h)
W = F * s
Source date (UTC): 2017-09-27 13:03:00 UTC
