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by Patterner
Mon Sep 15, 2025 11:35 am
Forum: Consciousness is Fundamental
Topic: 03: THE MIND
Replies: 0
Views: 173

03: THE MIND

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 ...
by Patterner
Sun Sep 07, 2025 1:47 pm
Forum: Consciousness is Fundamental
Topic: 02: INFORMATION
Replies: 0
Views: 169

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: 668

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
Sat Jan 20, 2024 7:51 am
Forum: Consciousness is Fundamental
Topic: 04: CAUSALITY
Replies: 0
Views: 108936

04: CAUSALITY

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...
by Patterner
Sun Dec 31, 2023 6:22 pm
Forum: Panpsychism Discussions
Topic: Evolution
Replies: 0
Views: 94349

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: 182680

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 ...
by Patterner
Sat Dec 16, 2023 10:01 pm
Forum: Panpsychism Discussions
Topic: The Combination Problem
Replies: 2
Views: 148863

Re: The Combination Problem

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...
by Patterner
Thu Dec 14, 2023 7:18 am
Forum: Panpsychism Discussions
Topic: What is Consciousness?
Replies: 5
Views: 245922

Re: What is Consciousness?

To me the characteristics of consciousness are firstly, it has some differentiated characteristics, that is, upon any given sensory field, it will have at minimum two states, that is on and off. I don't know what you mean. It seems you are explaining how characteristics of consciousness come about,...
by Patterner
Thu Dec 14, 2023 12:12 am
Forum: Panpsychism Discussions
Topic: Fields
Replies: 3
Views: 182680

Re: Fields

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 ...
by Patterner
Wed Dec 13, 2023 5:33 am
Forum: Panpsychism Discussions
Topic: What is Consciousness?
Replies: 5
Views: 245922

Re: What is Consciousness?

I was thinking more asking the lines of: What are the characteristics of consciousness? The definition of Consciousness, famously, depends on who you ask. I'm wondering why we can agree on at least one or two characteristics. I believe I understand what you're saying. I don't object to the idea. I b...