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If our consciousness is basically information moving at the speed of light over short distances in some sort of resonance or loop, would that explain the feeling of an "I" as a singular thing in space and time, while the world moves around us? We're basically little singularities?

>> No.15831115

>>15831089
>information moving at the speed of light
why should this necessarily require the 'feeling' anything, much less self-referential embodied identity?

>> No.15831172

>>15831115
Total internal reflection of light within the skull cavity forms a standing wave pattern which can be modulated by synaptic firings and whose magnetic and electric field concentrations can influence the flow of ions in the brain to trigger further cascaded firings in resonance with the field.

>> No.15831594

>>15831115

Maybe for consciousness to work, it needs a subject and object. The only way to do this is through creating an object from perceptions. This would be pain, wetness, redness, whatever sensation. Otherwise there is nothing for consciousness to think about.

If a tiger is biting your arm, it would behoove you to think about ways to escape. But even conceptualizing the situation requires generating a feeling of pain so that your awareness is aware of the pain. Otherwise consciousness may not even realize that what is happening is "bad" for it. Pain would therefore have evolved as an artificial feeling so that our consciousness knows something is happening that is not bad for survival.

>> No.15831606

Does this mean "you" will repeat your current self after death, or other lives not unrelated to you?

>> No.15831610
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15831610

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0YID6XV-PQ

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>>15831089
>would that explain the feeling of an "I" as a singular thing in space and time, while the world moves around us? We're basically little singularities?
The technical terms for this is the binding problem.

>> No.15831642

>>15831610

In English please, doc.

>> No.15831700

>>15831089
>in some sort of resonance or loop,
How did you get this part

>> No.15831736

>>15831700

Waves can interact with themselves

Matter/energy exists in waves

>> No.15831740

>>15831736
>Waves can interact with themselves
Elaborate on this and why this would be applicable to the brain/consciousness?

>> No.15831746

>>15831089
1) consciousness doesn't move at speed of light
2) feeling of "I" is just physical location of the body as the brain processes information and gauges information coming through and measures the distance relative to the body. The same part of the brain tells whether someone's friend/foe as well.

Singularities are irrelevant

>> No.15831754

>>15831740

I don't have a detailed model. But it seems like something that would make sense and should be explored.