/sci/ - Science & Math

Hello /sci/
i recently consumed (and am still under the influence of) DMT
and i have come to tell you that the consciousness is a supertemporal thing and our concepts of it as being bound by our time constraints are foolish
consciousness exists as a single unbroken entity, yes it needs a mind to be able to exist, its essentially a computer program running that needs a physical computer to run in or will cease to exist (although i do not know if computer programs are true consciousness-like programs or simply mechanical representations of conceptual functions, like extremely complex electronic clockwork)
however the consciousness, the "self", the observer, is produced by the physical mind, but is distinct from it, because it is not a physical but a conceptual entity (like a program)

The /sci/ implication of this is in debate about transhumanism. Uploading one's brain to a computer, the philosophy behind it of whether the computer is truly yourself, or whether yourself dies because your body dies and the computer program is a different thing. It is the same self, because "self" as a conceptual thing; it is not bound by time, and so as long as it is continuous through spacetime (with the information flow into the computer from the brain), the self can travel from one physical executor to another; and the human body dies, so obviously the experience of that self is limited; but the computer self survives on and experiences more for longer, and thus that self, is the more significant self, than the one that has died; so for all effective points of view, once the other one dies it stops being better, so the computer takes on the self, as an effective supertemporal being, that is one solid and continuous entity, that at all points is following the laws of spacetime
its not that there necessarily is anything beyond spacetime but as far as objects within spacetime, the self is valid, even if perhaps just as an emergent property of complex electrochemical systems