Consciousness
- SubatomicAl1en
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Consciousness
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Re: Consciousness
Material things, and the dynamic relations that they're in with other material things, necessarily are properties (or "have properties" to use a common way of talking about this). And ALL properties are simply ways that material things/in dynamic relations with other material things are.SubatomicAl1en wrote: ↑January 8th, 2020, 12:19 am because how could chemicals in our brains produce images and thoughts and emotion
So any property we can mention is something that "chemicals"/material objects do.
Different arrangements of molecules, atoms, subatomic particles have different properties.
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Re: Consciousness
Living things such as plants, animals, and microbes seem to have some kind of consciousness.SubatomicAl1en wrote: ↑January 8th, 2020, 12:19 am Maybe consciousness isn't electrical pulses, maybe it's a thing that exists in it's own state, because how could chemicals in our brains produce images and thoughts and emotion? And why do we feel them the way we feel them? This could mean that a rock is conscious. This could mean the whole universe is conscious, and that every scientific law we stated is just based on what the universe FEELS like doing. Like in the threebody problem: We are organisms living on a piece of paper, higher beings are randomly poking holes onto our paper, and we THINK that there's a pattern. We could even create two exact same consciousnesses using quantum entanglement and see if they act the same. How would proving consciousness is a being on it's own affect the world?
Plants bend themselves towards sunlight.
Microbes squiggle around to find nutrients.
Animals propel themselves to find food, water, shelter, and companionship.
That definitely involves consciousness for them all.
What the essence of this consciousness is we humans have never been able to isolate, identify, and/or measure. So we are still in the dark about it all.
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