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~Consciousness~
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~Consciousness~
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Highly Controversial Topic May cause some symptoms of existentialism.
This thread is not meant to convenience you of anything.
Just thought it was fun to put this together.
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You believe there is a 'you' inside the brain.
Even as you read this, you've most likely concluded a
least subconsciously that there is still a 'you' in the ever-
changing feedback loop of consciousness.
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Even as you read this, you've most likely concluded a
least subconsciously that there is still a 'you' in the ever-
changing feedback loop of consciousness.
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We are a collection of atoms.
Configure them a certain way and something lights up
from the inside.
There is now something that tells what it's like to be
matter.
In the most fundamental sense we are having an
experience.
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Configure them a certain way and something lights up
from the inside.
There is now something that tells what it's like to be
matter.
In the most fundamental sense we are having an
experience.
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Our brain has a successful attempt at taking things
that is happening in the real world at different times and
syncing them so that our present moment experience of
the world is happening at the same time when really
those signals are coming in at different times.
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that is happening in the real world at different times and
syncing them so that our present moment experience of
the world is happening at the same time when really
those signals are coming in at different times.
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Ex: Ball in hand
Light waves bounce off the ball and process
through your retina by the brain.
Your hand has a sensory experience from feeling the ball
and a slower process receiving signals through your
arm. Overall the experience happens all at the same time.
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Light waves bounce off the ball and process
through your retina by the brain.
Your hand has a sensory experience from feeling the ball
and a slower process receiving signals through your
arm. Overall the experience happens all at the same time.
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Truth is sight came more quickly than feeling the ball.
Any sound came more quickly than the sight.
These signals get woven together in a present moment
that gets delivered to your conscious experience.
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Any sound came more quickly than the sight.
These signals get woven together in a present moment
that gets delivered to your conscious experience.
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Scientists theorize that consciousness is not simply
inside our brain but considered to be an emergent
phenomenon of the brain meaning it happens when
enough activity takes place in a way that can be
compared to how music emerges from a record player.
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inside our brain but considered to be an emergent
phenomenon of the brain meaning it happens when
enough activity takes place in a way that can be
compared to how music emerges from a record player.
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Music is on the record, but you will only find a circular
vinyl disk with peculiar grooves, it does not produce
music. Only when the mechanisms of the record player
are activated in a certain way that all activity produces an
emergent phenomenon called music.
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vinyl disk with peculiar grooves, it does not produce
music. Only when the mechanisms of the record player
are activated in a certain way that all activity produces an
emergent phenomenon called music.
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Consciousness is somewhat similar, we can't physically
locate it at one point or in one area. If we zoom in on the
grey matter of our brain, we find as much evidence for
consciousness as we find tiny marbles inside a molecule,
which is none at all.
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locate it at one point or in one area. If we zoom in on the
grey matter of our brain, we find as much evidence for
consciousness as we find tiny marbles inside a molecule,
which is none at all.
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Yet when billions of neurons fire and communicate with
each other, the combination of the enormous amount of
activity creates a phenomenon that is consciousness
So where are we then in the brain?
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each other, the combination of the enormous amount of
activity creates a phenomenon that is consciousness
So where are we then in the brain?
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If neuroscience can find parts of the brain that are
largely responsible for language, mathematics, specific
primal emotions, what does it say about the parts of the
brain that makes up the core of what we are?
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largely responsible for language, mathematics, specific
primal emotions, what does it say about the parts of the
brain that makes up the core of what we are?
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Not only have scientists, despite their best efforts, not
been able to locate such a region of the brain. But all
evidence even points towards this core not existing.
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been able to locate such a region of the brain. But all
evidence even points towards this core not existing.
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It has become more and more clear that in this miniature
universe of the brain, roughly 100 billion neurons all act
by themselves and communicate with each other as if the
brain is an astoundingly complex vehicle with no driver.
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universe of the brain, roughly 100 billion neurons all act
by themselves and communicate with each other as if the
brain is an astoundingly complex vehicle with no driver.
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End of Part 1
.....to be continued.
Where are we?
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.....to be continued.
Where are we?
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