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Before getting into it, I think it's a good idea to explain why I don't think physicalism is the answer to consciousness. There are a few reasons. 1. Consciousness is not physical. Although it is inextricably bound to the physical, and doesn't exist without a physical component (at least we are not ...

In Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious , Antonio Damasio writes: Life sailed forth without words or thoughts, without feelings or reasons, devoid of minds or consciousness. And yet living organisms sensed others like them and sensed their environments. By sensing I mean the detection of a ...

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...

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...

CAUSALITY This is what it's all about!!! :D I believe consciousness is causal. But how can such a thing be? Let's consider Greene's words again: Mass produces and responds to a gravitational force, and electric charge produces and responds to an electromagnetic force. So while I can’t tell you what...

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...

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 ...

You remind me of Eknath Easwaran in his introduction to his translation of The Bhagavad Gita : Later philosophers explained maya in surprisingly contemporary terms. The mind, they said, observes the so-called outside world and sees its own structure. It reports that the world consists of a multiplic...

I'd really like to know more about this idea. I like the idea of consciousness being a field, as opposed to my thoughts on proto-consciousness. I guess this is a type off idealism? I think consciousness is more like an indivisible field, upon which matter exists. But it can’t be said to exist until ...

Meaning, why bother with ideas like panpsychism? In The Conscious Mind , David Chalmers writes: Why should there be conscious experience at all? It is central to a subjective viewpoint, but from an objective viewpoint it is utterly unexpected. Taking the objective view, we can tell a story about how...