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It seems most people think consciousness is emergent: Emergence is a notorious philosophical term of art. A variety of theorists have appropriated it for their purposes ever since George Henry Lewes gave it a philosophical sense in his 1875 Problems of Life and Mind . We might roughly characterize t...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...