/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.10565449]

What does /sci/ think consciousness is?
Is it just a simple chemical process?
Is it a portal to another dimension?
Is it a fundamental aspect of reality, like magnetism or radiation?
Can true consciousness be created in an artificial being?

[Anonymous No.10565455]

Interactionist dualism is the only philosophy of mind that makes any sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXX-_G_9kww
http://cogprints.org/6613/1/Dualism0409.pdf

[Anonymous No.10566818]

All matter posses the property knows as consciousness
Interactions between matter can link their consciousness in a non trivial way creating a higher level consciousness
Intelligence is also strongly related to consciousness but not equivalent to it(its an emergent property)

[Anonymous No.10566930]

>>10566818
Matter posses conciusness as some form of magic, or it's property emerged from other properties of matter or it's "shape" in higher planes of being?

[Anonymous No.10566947]

>>10566930
yes

[Anonymous No.10566964]

>>10565449
>Can true consciousness be created in an artificial being?

Can it be created in “natural” ones? If so, then yes. Brainlet thread.

[Anonymous No.10566975]

>>10566818
ur wrong kys
there's literally nothing backing this up u autist

[Anonymous No.10566982]

>>10565455
>A violation of the laws is physics is the only thing that makes sense

How about you fuck off and come back with observational evidence of energy from nowhere appearing in the brain.

[Anonymous No.10566989]

>>10566975
t.

[Anonymous No.10566996]

>>10566989
>I have no argument whatsoever lol meme picture

[Anonymous No.10567018]

>tfw people try to explain consciousness without accounting for relativity of simultaneity
The absolute state of brainlets

[Anonymous No.10567020]

this thread and every one of its kind will be forever pointless until one of you retards gives a good definition of consciousness

[Anonymous No.10567031]

>>10567020
There can be two definition of consciousness. First is simple awareness of things. Second is awareness of awareness.

[Anonymous No.10567039]

>>10565449
When you examine the idea of consciousness closely, you'll find that it does not exist

[Anonymous No.10567059]

>>10566964
true. It's an insanely complex system, but simply the fact that there are conscious being is enough to conclude it can be recreated artificially, given the appropriate amount of complexity in the design.

[Anonymous No.10567062]

>>10566996
seething brainlet

[Anonymous No.10567107]

Cosciousness is the recursion of the local subtlety of the infinite fractal that is universe.

[Anonymous No.10567135]

>>10567059
I don’t know about that. Flatworms have entire nervous systems of less than 500 neurons and are active, motile animals.

>>10567062
>U r really mad n dum cus I sent a meme picture to someone else

K

[Anonymous No.10567141]

>>10565455
Brainlet dualism

[Anonymous No.10567144]

>>10566818
This but unironically

[Anonymous No.10567163]

>>10565455
Wrong.
Metaphysical idealism is the right answer. That's why you literally can't disprove it.

[Anonymous No.10567240]

>>10567107
that's one possibility out of a thousand more possibilities

[Anonymous No.10567329]

>>10565449
Is it problem that you only respect consciousness or that you want to harass robots?

[Anonymous No.10567356]

it's just chemicals in the brain, since we're unable to observe anything more than that we can just assume it doesn't exist

[Anonymous No.10567371]

>>10565455
Pfft
dialectical monism > interactionist dualism

consciousness is a fundamental aspect of the universe which correlates with the complexity of the organism.

[Anonymous No.10568542]

>>10566818
How do you figure that intelligence is related to consciousness?

How did you measure the consciousness of a rock for example? Or an ant?

[Anonymous No.10568552]

If we replace a neuron with a computer chip, do we lose consciousness? Probably not because neurons die all the time anyway.

If we keep replacing neurons with chips until all of our brain is one big computer, at what point do we lose consciousness or do we still have it afterwards?

What if the artificial neurons are not physical components, but simple radiotransmitters that relay information to a server that has a neuron simulator on it. Now let's replace every neuron with a simulated neuron, do we still have consciousness? Even after all of the brain is inside the computer?

What if the computer is a mechanical computer made of rocks that we push around? Does the information content and information processing ability of the rocks now contain a consciousness?

It seems to me that somewhere along the way consciousness should disappear when you replace neurons with a bunch of rocks. But I don't see any single point where it should. So maybe rocks and everything else in the universe has a consciousness after all? But since a rock doesn't really think, their consciouness would be something quite different from ours.

Pic kinda related.

[Anonymous No.10568621]

>>10568542
>How do you figure that intelligence is related to consciousness?
Intelligence changes the experience of consciousness but isnt necessary for it
One should intrinsically know this because the thinking you do with your consciousness depends on your intelligence

>How did you measure the consciousness of a rock for example? Or an ant?
We cant really measure it without a physical theory of consciousness
In my opinion both are conscious, but because of their low/non existing level of intelligence their experience of consciousness differs vastly from the human one
A rock might also not have the described interactions for consciousness linking, given that the material "anker" of consciousness in humans lies only in the central nervous system

[Anonymous No.10568688]

Consciousness is "what information feels like to be processed". Max Tegmark covers it in his book Our Mathematical Universe. The metric of consciousness is therefore the metric of information processing.

This obviously leads into panpsychism, but people tend to confuse themselves by projecting human senses (like sight and touch) and perceptions onto a single universal consciousness.

[Anonymous No.10568691]

>>10567107
>Deepak

[Anonymous No.10568974]

>>10568552
You can't replace neuron by chip to keep it functionality in same space, but keep barking doggo.

[Anonymous No.10569243]

>>10568688
Is feeling required to be feeled to be a feeling?

[Anonymous No.10569259]

>>10565449
unironically brighter than dark and dimmer than light, white with a tint of purple, pulsing with a complex frequency pattern

[Anonymous No.10569271]

>>10569259
correction, it looks a bit purple but that's our visual cortex compensating (my guess). It's just white, the essence of it

[Anonymous No.10569280]

>>10565449
Yes
Yes
Yes
And yes