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A Relativistic Theory of Consciousness
- colordrops 4y agoHas anyone here read through the whole paper? Based on the introduction, it sounds very circular - the difference between conscious and non-conscious experience of mental phenomena is who is measuring the phenomena. But by bring in a "who", isn't this a circular definition?
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoAbsolutely an example of begging the question. "Phenomenal consciousness is only seemingly private because in order to measure it one needs to be in the appropriate cognitive frame of reference. It is not a simple transformation to change from a third-person cognitive frame of reference to the first-person frame, but in principle it can be done, and hence phenomenal consciousness isn’t private anymore." [facepalm]
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- goldenkey 4y agoI tried but it was too long and started using math for things that aren't really applicable. I do think that consciousness is not recognizable by us, when it might exist, due to the spatial and temporal interval in which we reside. For example, a tree, or a galaxy, can be conscious, but we'd never notice with the time it takes for the tree to react to seasons or millenial-long climate changes, or the space that the galaxy changes over -- and the speed of light limiting its reactions.
- toxicore 4y agoThe mathematical notation is horrendous.