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Consciousness
Consciousness means being awake, alert and responsive to the environment.
Consciousness, at its simplest, is sentience or awareness of internal and external existence.
Despite millennia of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial,
being “at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives”.
It is not known what causes consciousness, so, it is difficult to know if another person or thing is indeed conscious.
Video
The origin of consciousness – How unaware things became aware
Posted 17 Mar 2019
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H6u0VBqNBQ8
The Evolution of Consciousness
Posted Jan 2018
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XbOP0IKpsZ0
You can have super intellect without consciousness – the worst thing you can do
Links
Quantum physics could finally explain consciousness, scientists say
We asked a theoretical physicist, an experimental physicist, and a professor of philosophy to weigh in
https://popularmechanics.com/science/a40898392/quantum-physics-consciousness
By Robert Lea, posted Aug 16, 2022
Quantum physics and consciousness are weird
“Consciousness is a phenomenon associated with free will and free will makes use of the freedom that quantum mechanics supposedly provides”
Superposition and Schrödinger’s cat
Physical body and quantum mind?
“Quantum mysticism makes it very difficult for serious scientists to think about problems like quantum mechanics and consciousness” LOL!
(some) Scientists believe the universe is Conscious
By Caroline Delbert, published 10 June 2021
https://popularmechanics.com/science/a36329671/is-the-universe-conscious/
> Consciousness is “the normal mental condition of the waking state of humans, characterized by the experience of perceptions, thoughts, feelings, awareness of the external world, and often in humans (but not necessarily in other animals) self-awareness”
> “This claims consciousness is inherent in even the tiniest pieces of matter - an idea that suggests the fundamental building blocks of reality have conscious experience. Crucially, it implies consciousness could be found throughout the universe”
> consciousness isn’t strictly causal (or algorithmic) because, on the tiniest level, it’s a product of unpredictable quantum phenomena that don’t conform to classical physics
> Is the universe a conscious being, like a gigantic widely dispersed human brain?
> Scientists have long questioned how consciousness and science mix
> Two mathematicians have turned one theory into a crunchable math model
“Controversial” theory says human consciousness is… electromagnetic?
It may sound crazy, but it’s based on “science”
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/controversial-new-theory-says-human-consciousness-is-electromagnetic
What is consciousness for? [lay summary]
Ivaylo Durmonski, posted 08/07/2021
https://durmonski.com/lay-summaries/what-is-consciousness-for
Consciousness is not computation
Posted June 17, 2022
https://joe-antognini.github.io/ml/consciousness
Anil Seth finds consciousness in life’s push against entropy
How does consciousness arise in mere flesh and blood? To the neuroscientist Anil Seth, our organic bodies are the key to the experience
https://www.quantamagazine.org/anil-seth-finds-consciousness-in-lifes-push-against-entropy-20210930
Can our brains help prove the universe is conscious?
By David Crookes, All About Space magazine:
https://livescience.com/is-the-universe-conscious.html
