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by Patterner
Sun Sep 07, 2025 1:47 pm
Forum: Consciousness is Fundamental
Topic: 02: INFORMATION
Replies: 0
Views: 53

02: INFORMATION

A mountain doesn't mean something it is not. A mountain doesn't even mean a mountain. It simply is a mountain. Water flowing over a cliff doesn't mean anything other than water flowing over a cliff. It doesn't even mean water flowing over a cliff. It simply is water flowing over a cliff. In informat...
by Patterner
Thu Jun 12, 2025 4:55 pm
Forum: Consciousness is Fundamental
Topic: 01: WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?
Replies: 0
Views: 575

01: WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?

The definition of consciousness is very important here. Of course, it is usually important. But I think moreso here. I know many will always think the idea I'm championing is nonsense. But the definition of consciousness needs to be clear for those willing to consider the idea. In short: Consciousne...
by Patterner
Fri Aug 09, 2024 1:06 am
Forum: Proto-Consciousness
Topic: Proto-Consciousness 06: Higher Consciousness
Replies: 0
Views: 146157

Proto-Consciousness 06: Higher Consciousness

Are humans "more conscious" than any other species? Since consciousness is notoriously difficult to define, I don't think there's a consensus on greater and lesser consciousness between species. If what I've said so far is correct, however, humans have higher consciousness than at least mo...
by Patterner
Thu Aug 08, 2024 3:00 am
Forum: Proto-Consciousness
Topic: Proto-Consciousness 05: Verification
Replies: 0
Views: 107169

Proto-Consciousness 05: Verification

How??? I don't know what kind of observations don't look the same with or without proto-consciousness. What would we see, or not see, only if proto-consciousness is real, or isn't? Can we list all the different information processing systems within us, and goes through how's thru all interact? And c...
by Patterner
Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:23 am
Forum: Proto-Consciousness
Topic: Proto-Consciousness 03: Information
Replies: 0
Views: 107745

Proto-Consciousness 03: Information

Information A mountain doesn't mean something it is not. A mountain doesn't even mean a mountain. It simply is a mountain. Water flowing over a cliff doesn't mean anything other than water flowing over a cliff. It doesn't even mean water flowing over a cliff. It simply is water flowing over a cliff...
by Patterner
Sun Jan 21, 2024 6:15 am
Forum: Proto-Consciousness
Topic: Proto-Consciousness 00: Chatter
Replies: 0
Views: 107496

Proto-Consciousness 00: Chatter

Although I suspect proto-consciousness is the answer, I realize I'm not presenting any evidence for it. But I'm enjoying trying to develop a hypothesis that, at least, isn't self-contradictory. Maybe someone will figure out how to prove or disprove it. I suspect there will be changes to how this sub...
by Patterner
Sat Jan 20, 2024 7:51 am
Forum: Proto-Consciousness
Topic: Proto-Consciousness 04: CAUSALITY
Replies: 0
Views: 108846

Proto-Consciousness 04: CAUSALITY

CAUSALITY This is what it's all about!!! :D Consciousness is feeling. Not necessarily emotions, although that type of feeling is present in those with higher degrees of consciousness. Like us. But the most basic definition of consciousness comes from Nagle, in What is it like to be a bat? : But no ...
by Patterner
Sat Jan 20, 2024 7:47 am
Forum: Proto-Consciousness
Topic: Proto-Consciousness 02: How does it work?
Replies: 0
Views: 108620

Proto-Consciousness 02: How does it work?

How Could Proto-Consciousness Build Consciousness? I'm not going to pretend this is even a theory. I can't imagine how to test it. But here's ideas I have. I'm not sure how to word this... Proto-consciousness experiences the things that happen to the particle it is a property of. Let's look at that...
by Patterner
Sun Dec 31, 2023 6:22 pm
Forum: Panpsychism Discussions
Topic: Evolution
Replies: 0
Views: 94283

Evolution

I don't think height evolved. I think height is a characteristic of everything. At least everything we can see with our eyes, even if aided by a microscope. Maybe it's not a property of matter, but a characteristic of mass. Something like that? So everything has height. Things evolve with greater or...
by Patterner
Mon Dec 18, 2023 6:33 am
Forum: Panpsychism Discussions
Topic: Fields
Replies: 3
Views: 182552

Re: Fields

BUT, each individual mind IS that greater mind, cordoned off from the rest of the universe. The greater mind is having “thoughts” of being an individual mind. And there are countless individual minds, all parts of that greater field, indivisible, in a fractal like manner, as the whole is contained ...