Say, let’s admit consciousness is the result of a physical process.
Then say this process only goes “forward” when our time coordinate increases. Just like an egg gets cooked when it’s temperature coordinate increases, but it doesn’t get more or less cooked when it’s temperature coordinate decreases.
This would mean that going back in time doesn’t result in any perceptible change, since your consciousness hasn’t evolved from it’s “former” state.
Thus making it possible for us to be travelling through plenty of dimensions in varied directions, only ever experiencing the brief times when you happen to be moving in increasing time. Or whatever combination of movement along varied dimensions makes it possible for you to be conscious.
TLDR: i need to take shorter showers
No, no. I think your showers need to be longer. You might be onto something.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk, i will be coming back tommorow with a conclusion to my thesis
“Say, let’s admit consciousness is the result of a physical process.”
Let’s not. I don’t have any proof of that. Everything obviously exists inside consciousness. Why should I believe it arises from matter? Even a brain cell under a microscope exists inside consciousness. You’d need to have some kind of an objective view that exists outside consciousness that can show matter creating it. But then you wouldn’t be able to know about it because it’s outside consciousness. Everything you know must exist inside consciousness. Else you wouldn’t know about it.
Also consciousness studies are very much a thing
We obviously don’t know but I’d say that it’s still a pretty good starting assumption to say that consciousness is an emergent feature of information processing which is a physical process happening in out brain.
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Say, let’s admit consciousness is the result of a physical process.
It was more of like in math with unprovable statements, you can say let’s assyme it’s true because it leads to all these interesting consequences. All the while being very much aware that it all requires for this perticular to be true
We don’t have proof that consciousness is the result of a physical process. But there’s no reason to think it isn’t. You can make up anything and say it’s unknowable, and nobody can prove this false; but it’s pretty much useless. Sure you can stick with ‘I think therefore I am’ as the only knowable thing, but it won’t get you very far. The physical world as science has self-consistently explained has been shown to be very practical, specifically with prediction of observation. Consciousness seems different, but there’s no real reason to assume it is.
Thing is that science cannot prove matter is prior either, yet that is taken as the core assumption that all other assumptions must align to.
This is the scientific version of Christians saying “god is real, says so in the bible, and because bible was written by god, it must be true”.
This actually reminds me of the theory of quantum immortality (the idea that you’re immortal because your consciousness will always continue on in branches of reality where you survive). It kind of fits with your description of awareness “moving forward” only along certain coordinates of time or possibility.
Ooh indeed, didn.tthink of combining this with the multiple worlds theory to get an even spicier one
My understanding of pasta salad is a result of how couscousness works.
There is no time. There is just the state of now, which is ever changing. (imo)
But seriously, this is a good one
I think I understood this and agree. Last night was a bit of a bender, so maybe I haven’t recovered yet, but damn.
