Yeah, I thought about using "fusing", rather than "fusion", to emphasize that I think we're mistaken when we talk of objects/things. Consciousness is no more an object/thing than a river. It's all processes all the way down.
On 8/15/24 08:16, Stephen Guerin wrote:
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 7:39 AM glen <geprope...@gmail.com <mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>> wrote: That's why I prefer "fusion". The ganglia (~2 in humans, ~9 in octopuses?) execute functions broadly describable as fusion. But our gut ganglion most likely fuses different perception signals from that of our brains. The fusion in an octopus' central brain is prolly different from that of its arm brains, maybe even higher order (fusion of fusions). So, no, neither the octopus' consciousness nor our consciousness are "unitary". That seems preposterous to me. But "fused"? Yeah ... somehow. Your profusion of ideas fuses and infuses, sometimes leading to confusion, but through diffusion, transfusion, and the occasional defusion of tension, this process ultimately results in a perfusion of collective wisdom and the refusion of insights from subfused elements beneath the surface. <grin>
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