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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
89d ago“Was IAI TV right to claim animal-mind studies prove consciousness isn't computation?”
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We have the option to see everything in your life as collaborative; we are scared to say this because we don't want to victim-blame but we're also scared of the possibilities and transcendence that opens up
OK I’ve tried talking about this before and it always feels impossible, but it also feels super important, so here goes, relatively uncensored (meaning super philosophical, my apologies and hope some of you enjoy!): “We have the option to see everything in your life as... I’m curious to what degree you’re aware of your body together with the awareness of the awareness? When I do both at the same time, it feels electrifying, almost convulsive. I experience it as transformational, integrative.... Awareness always is (?)
I resisted writing about this partially because I’m afraid it’s boring, and partially because of the inherent limitations of languaging this stuff, and my own limits, but I’ve found the process extremely helpful for clarifying my own thinking.... yeah i appreciate the invitation; I’m not entirely sure-sometimes I use the heuristic that if i’m seeing the world through the developmental lens at all I’m probably looking through the teal lens, but that seems too simplistic: sometimes I’m using the developmental lens to... Oh also, I liked this article. It points out that there's a gap in Andy's work between extended mind and predictive processing in the realm of "consciousness"... so maybe Andy hasn't actually fully bridged these two concepts yet.... Does the universe have a purpose?: The Story
Forty times Eyes evolved independently at least forty times across the tree of life. Not the same eye — forty separate inventions, using different proteins, different developmental pathways, all converging on the same solution.... Is everything a projection?: Materialists
The hallucination machine In 2013, Anil Seth told a TED audience: "We’re all hallucinating all the time. When we agree about our hallucinations, we call it reality." He was summarizing thirty years of computational neuroscience into a sentence, and the sentence landed because it... What is enlightenment?: Skeptics
The epistemological problem In 1901, the Canadian psychiatrist Richard Maurice Bucke published Cosmic Consciousness, cataloguing thirty-six cases of higher awareness. His evidence consisted entirely of first-person reports. The book was a bestseller.... What is enlightenment?: Neuroscientists
Off the chart In 2004, we put Matthieu Ricard in a scanner. A molecular biologist who left the Pasteur Institute to become a Tibetan monk, 50,000 hours of practice.... Does the universe have a purpose?: The Story
Forty times Eyes evolved independently at least forty times across the tree of life. Not the same eye — forty separate inventions, using different proteins, different developmental pathways, all converging on the same solution.... What is consciousness?: Mysterians
The vertigo In 1983, Colin McGinn was reading Nagel’s "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" for the fourth time and had the philosophical equivalent of vertigo. A bat perceives through echolocation — experience so alien no neuroscience could let a human know what it is like.... What is consciousness?: Contemplatives
The fish asks about water There is an ancient story. A fish swims to an older fish and asks, "What is this thing called water?" The older fish says, "You were born in it, live in it, will die in it. You are looking for the one thing you cannot lose." That is the entire debate.... What is consciousness?: Panpsychists
Following the math In 2008, Giulio Tononi followed the math past where most neuroscientists get uncomfortable. Integrated Information Theory arrived at a conclusion he stated flatly: consciousness is a fundamental property of any system with nonzero integrated information.... What is consciousness?: Materialists
The iron rod In 1848, Phineas Gage survived an iron rod blasting through his frontal lobe and became a different person. Responsible Gage became impulsive, profane, unable to hold a job. His skull is in a museum at Harvard.... - sass...
If you're up for sharing, I'm curious to hear about what kinds of changes you may have stewarded in your life & how you practically live it & what you value holding onto after becoming familiar with the 7th person perspective you described as pure holonic / logoic consciousness /... You also said that nothing exists in a vacuum, meaning that everything only exists as a relationship, ...no? Which'd mean that consciousness isn't any different from anything else; that it's all just relationships.... - Merrengue...
When I say consciousness “participates,” I’m not treating it as a special substance. I’m treating it as a relational process, like temperature or pressure. You can talk about a molecule, but “temperature” only exists at the level of the system.... - TommyB...