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I'm not arguing for or against anything here, but regarding your comparison: > If the brain is a receiver for consciousness, surely my consciousness should exi

by danhau 4y ago

I'm not arguing for or against anything here, but regarding your comparison: > If the brain is a receiver for consciousness, surely my consciousness should exist independently of my brain? Interfering with a radio doesn’t change what’s happening in the recording studio. Interfering with a radio distorts the transmitted, outcoming sound. You could say your perceived consciousness is just that: something transmitted from an origin. The state of the brain could then very well mess with conciousness. It could add or remove harmonics, delay, EQ, filters, etc.

muzani 4y ago
Yeah, the radio is silent when it's off. The radio is needed to turn the signal into something.
e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I totally agree with the parent post but was coming here to say the same thing - the best argument I've heard along these lines is that the signal is still transmitting but "you" aren't receiving it. This kinda makes goes against the idea of consciousness where you're aware of stuff, so in this case it should be more like an out-of-body experience that you do remember, but I could easily see someone arguing that it's some sort of soul-plane thing where you can't form memories but do have experiences.
- dsego 4y ago
  There are crazier theories out there. > There is only one reality per person. It is set up by the soul specifically to obtain experiences from. We do not share our reality with anyone. It only looks that way. > To facilitate educational growth, Souls create “Realities”. Realities are a classroom that Souls can grow through a surrogate “human” > Soul places an “interface” within the constructed “reality”. This is known as “consciousness”. > The universal template consists of every single human, and every possible action that they were involved in, from the earliest dates to the end of humanity. The soul selects individual realities out of this universal template. > Once the experiences, and the lessons, are finished the consciousness leaves the physical reality. It returns home to soul. > There are a (near) infinite number of world-lines that a consciousness (person) can experience. > Consciousness can migrate from one reality to another reality. This is commonly known as world-line travel. As such, these changes help to bring about desired experiences and lessons ... and so on https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/consciousness-migration-for-world-line-travel/ https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/consciousness-migration-...
  - e_i_pi_2 4y ago
    This reminded me of a short story I read by the guy that wrote "The Martian" - it's different from what you're describing but in this model there's only one person and they're living every life through reincarnation, with the goal being that you experience all human lives and then you're fully matured and able to move on to whatever the next step is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egg_(Weir_short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egg_(Weir_short_story)

by danhau 4y ago

muzani 4y ago

Yeah, the radio is silent when it's off. The radio is needed to turn the signal into something.

e_i_pi_2 4y ago

I totally agree with the parent post but was coming here to say the same thing - the best argument I've heard along these lines is that the signal is still transmitting but "you" aren't receiving it. This kinda makes goes against the idea of consciousness where you're aware of stuff, so in this case it should be more like an out-of-body experience that you do remember, but I could easily see someone arguing that it's some sort of soul-plane thing where you can't form memories but do have experiences.

dsego 4y ago
There are crazier theories out there. > There is only one reality per person. It is set up by the soul specifically to obtain experiences from. We do not share our reality with anyone. It only looks that way. > To facilitate educational growth, Souls create “Realities”. Realities are a classroom that Souls can grow through a surrogate “human” > Soul places an “interface” within the constructed “reality”. This is known as “consciousness”. > The universal template consists of every single human, and every possible action that they were involved in, from the earliest dates to the end of humanity. The soul selects individual realities out of this universal template. > Once the experiences, and the lessons, are finished the consciousness leaves the physical reality. It returns home to soul. > There are a (near) infinite number of world-lines that a consciousness (person) can experience. > Consciousness can migrate from one reality to another reality. This is commonly known as world-line travel. As such, these changes help to bring about desired experiences and lessons ... and so on https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/consciousness-migration-for-world-line-travel/ https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/consciousness-migration-...
- e_i_pi_2 4y ago
  This reminded me of a short story I read by the guy that wrote "The Martian" - it's different from what you're describing but in this model there's only one person and they're living every life through reincarnation, with the goal being that you experience all human lives and then you're fully matured and able to move on to whatever the next step is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egg_(Weir_short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Egg_(Weir_short_story)