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To echo callesgg elsewhere in this thread, my own pet "theory" is that conciousness is a metacomputation, i.e. not just a process of neural reactions to outside
by mynegation 10y ago
To echo callesgg elsewhere in this thread, my own pet "theory" is that conciousness is a metacomputation, i.e. not just a process of neural reactions to outside events, but reaction to a process of reaction. For example, understanding the need to convey acquired information to another being to the same species eventually led to the development of language. Figuring out that brain forgets information led to the development of storytelling (hoping that someone else will remember) and eventually writing. And so on. Conciousness to me is not black and white but instead a spectrum of traits made possible by thinking about thinking.
- ffwd 10y agoBut how does this explain the direct subjective experience that we have through our senses (also called the hard problem)?
- kordless 10y agoThere's meta computation and meta storage - the global consciousness is all computable Wisdom, but done with sacredness (delay). Space, or the creation of it, is networking or data exchange between the computation layer and the "storage" layer. We are here because of the causality happening between the layers.
- ilaksh 10y ago"metacomputation" -- that reminded me of this from Wikipedia on metasystem transition: "Turchin has applied the concept of metasystem transition in the domain of computing, via the notion of metacompilation or supercompilation. A supercompiler is a compiler program that compiles its own code, thus increasing its own efficiency, producing a remarkable speedup in its execution."