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“Whatever conclusions we may hold on the matter, it is certainly a part of our consciousness to ‘see’ into the consciousness of others, to identify with our friends and families so as to imagine what they are thinking and feeling” See, it’s interesting because I’ve already come across
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the kinds of ripples that emanated from Anna's brain as one might test a body of water to see if it had frozen over. A measure of the complexity of these ripples as they spread could tell us whether Anna was fully, minimally, or not-at-all conscious. If she
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Yet still others, the literary critics, noted that unlike novels, video games and film have never had the second-person perspective, the "you." Cameras in video games often take the point of view of a character's eyes and ears (first person) or take a vantage either above
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Confusingly, some had remembered their experience as an actual memory of having been once stood up, which meant that the fictional story had ingratiated itself into their autobiographical story of self. If a brain is a prediction engine, some memory researchers argued, then would not even false memories, trapped in
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“We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment
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“We are struggling to make sure of the permanence, continuity, and safety of this enduring core, this center and soul of our being which we call “I.” For this we think to be the real man—the thinker of our thoughts, the feeler of our feelings, and the knower of
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“I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two pieces. There must be a good “I” who is going to improve the bad “me.” “I,” who has the best intentions, will go to work on wayward “me,
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Roger Penrose On Why Consciousness Does Not Compute - Nautilus - Pocket A fun little diversion into quantum mechanics, consciousness, and free will. These arguments that involve indeterminate things, things that both are and are not, really remind me of the Tao.