Conscious Mind Could Be An Electromagnetic Field

Daily University Science News ^ | 16-May-2002 | Daily University Science News

[MainFrame65]

I'm going to start preparing a little list of candidates for radiation therapy. Let's start in the US Senate....

[apochromat]

My further take on things:

Consciousness, as most people know it, goes beyond whatever is required of the brain to integrate all the senses. Consciousness adds to that capacity a modeling mechanism for interpeting the sensory input in terms of a hierarchy of efficient, abstract generalized models. Beyond that, consciousness has a sense of place in the hierarchy. Human consciousness is capable of evaluating large numbers of potential scenarios, including potential self-placement scenarios. Because of this, consciousness is capable of considering: the act of considering: the act of considering: ... , et cetera, for any concept it can simply consider, if needed. All of this will be emulated by computers eventually, and clear distinctions between conscious and non-conscious will disappear.

[apochromat]

I'll take that as a lukewarm response to the proposition. I did get the Crosby reference, though.

[apochromat]

It's probably a lot simpler to consider the brain's experience to be dominated by a low-pass filtered version of the currents it generates. Some have described the brain as running at 100 baud, which implies quite a wide channel with extensive data compression and a tremendously large channel symbol set.

[apochromat]

I think experience could be further specified fairly accurately as being a low-pass filtered version of the currents nearest the surfaces of the cortex.

[d4now]

Beautiful post.

Namaste