Interesting! Samiya On 31-Dec-2013, at 8:09 PM, "Edgar L. Owen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> All, > > I'll present a brief overview of my theory of consciousness from my book on > Reality here. If anyone is interested I can elaborate. > > To understand consciousness we first must clearly distinguish between > consciousness ITSELF and the contents of consciousness that become conscious > by appearing within consciousness itself. > > The nature of consciousness itself, why things seem conscious, is the subject > of Chalmer's 'Hard Problem', whereas the various structures of the contents > of consciousness are the so called 'Easy Problems', the subjects of the study > of mind. > > Chalmer's formulation of the Hard Problem is 'How does consciousness arise > from a physical brain?' Let's generalized this a little to 'How does > consciousness arise from a physical world?' > > The key to the solution is understanding that the world is not 'physical' in > the sense assumed. It is not a passive clockwork Newtonian world that just > sits there waiting to be brought into consciousness by an observer. In fact > the notion of observation is intrinsic to reality itself in a manner that > reality actively manifests most of the defining attributes of reality on its > own and all the conscious observer adds is participation in that process from > a particular locus with a particular computational nformation structure. > > I'll explain how this works though the theory is subtle and requires some > work, and there is a lot to it I don't cover here. > > In ancient times there was an extramission (emission) theory of vision, that > objects were seen because the eyes shown light on them. Today we still have > the functionally identical emission theory of consciousness, that things > become conscious because mind somehow shines consciousness on them. > > Both theories are wrong. Things are conscious because reality continually > SELF-MANIFESTS itself. It continually computes itself into existence, and > existence self-manifests. It is immanent because it is actually real, and > actually present, and has actual being. This is what I call Ontological > Energy (OE). Things are really really real, they are really actually there, > and consciousness just opens its 'eyes' and participates in this reality. > Rather than the mind shining consciousness onto things, things manifest their > actual reality, their actual real presence in reality, to whatever interacts > with them, including human brains. > > The only thing an individual observer brings to consciousness is an > interaction with reality from a particular location, and an interaction with > the information contents of consciousness filtered through its own perceptual > cognitive structure. > > Thus consciousness itself is simply the immanent actual real presence of > reality, whereas the information structures of the contents of conscious are > due to information computations of the brain interacting with information > from external reality. > > This is the best, most convincing theory of consciousness of which I'm aware. > But like most of my theories it requires a big paradigm shift in > understanding since it's a completely new interpretation of reality. > > Best, > Edgar > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
