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Scroll down to the section on Conscious Realism. This presents a mathematical basis for what "base reality" is: a graph of conscious agents, and our reality is
by csmeyer 4y ago
Scroll down to the section on Conscious Realism. This presents a mathematical basis for what "base reality" is: a graph of conscious agents, and our reality is merely a projection of that graph (we perceive elements of the projection, not the base graph). This to me is a much more powerful idea than the Ted talk which is a bit clickbaity.
- strogonoff 4y agoYes. This reverses the popular physicalist understanding of causality from “neurons firing cause your mind” to “measurable changes in the brain are reflections of conscious activity”, and so on. This idealistic monism makes the most sense at a fundamental level. Since our mind is the only thing we can be sure exists, granting objective absolute existence instead to all those other bits and bobs and atoms and neurons—everything else but the mind—strikes me as logically inelegant overcomplication. While swapping the directionality of this causal arrow may be orthogonal to most of STEM fields as they are now (philosophical concerns are irrelevant to physics), it could have immense implications for fields like medicine and human well-being.