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I think there are precisely two options. Consciousness is a pure information process, and therefore computable. Or consciousness is not an information process
by Schroedingersat 4y ago
I think there are precisely two options.
Consciousness is a pure information process, and therefore computable.
Or consciousness is not an information process.
We only know of one thing that is not an information process, and that is entropy.
Given that entropy is precisely the creation of new information, and that this is a big part of most people's conception of free will, it seems reasonable to conclude that consciousness is much like a combination of self reference and entropy generation rather than some special other thing.
- skohan 4y agoIt's an interesting thought. I can imagine that consciousness is something like the experience of the possibility space expanding through entropy, and free will is collapsing that possibility space into a single interpretation of the reality of the moment and a single course of action.