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Who said that consciousness is "private property"? What if it's actually shared between people, like a field of some sort or another dimension, but everyone som
by grishka 2y ago
Who said that consciousness is "private property"? What if it's actually shared between people, like a field of some sort or another dimension, but everyone somehow gets their very own part of it? We know nothing about the nature of consciousness, so let's not assume anything about it. It might arise from the physical processes in the brain and be bounded by our known physics, sure, but it might just as well be something else entirely.
- saulpw 2y agoWhat if awareness is a field instead of a process? Like a moving magnet induces electric current in a coil of wire, decoherence in microtubules could induce qualia in the awareness field. See also: Alan Watts.
- grishka 2y agoProcess is something that happens over time. We don't know what time is because it might as well be an artifact of consciousness itself, so this particular distinction between a process and a field feels pointless. Time might arise from us moving in that field for example.