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I don't get this. I have an experience because I have specialized organs for delivering _information_ to a central information processing unit which can evaluat
by jhedwards 7y ago
I don't get this. I have an experience because I have specialized organs for delivering _information_ to a central information processing unit which can evaluate the experience in a way that is _temporally decoupled_ from the event itself. There is no such mechanism in snow, it doesn't convert "deformation" into data separately from the physical fact of its deformation.
- Lambdanaut 7y agoWhat you have are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and a few other pieces of earth, water, and air that are dancing around each other in a very complex way in order to dance up a very complex experience that has interesting properties that the snow does not exhibit in its experience of simple deformation. Your very special organs are nothing but melted snow(water) deforming against broken up rock(carbon), repeatedly, in beautiful fractal patterns that have emerged through evolutionary processes over billions of years. These evolutionary processes that turned Snow into You. The _information_ is higher order deformation.
- karmakaze 7y agoSo redefine experience = process? That's all I can parse out of it.
- Lambdanaut 7y agoCool, that's a start. Another implication is that you're a lot older and you've experienced a lot more than you identify with at the moment in the span of time identifying as this human system. I won't give you more than you can chew. Accepting that process=experience is already a huge paradigm shift. If you're interested in deeper implications, it's better if you come to them without anyone handing them over.