Shelli Renée Joye
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“The mental is too radically different for it to arise gradually from the physical. This emergence of subjective feelings from physical stuff appears inconceivable and is at odds with a basic precept of physical thinking, the Ur-conservation law—ex nihilo nihil fit [out of nothing comes nothing]. . . . The phenomenal hails from a kingdom other than the physical and is subject to different laws.2”
― The Electromagnetic Brain: EM Field Theories on the Nature of Consciousness
― The Electromagnetic Brain: EM Field Theories on the Nature of Consciousness
“Pockett argues that consciousness is separate from the actual information processing of the mind. The mind may be viewed as a local computer, but consciousness is that which operates the computer-mind. Not only does consciousness exist at a level or domain that lies beyond the data manipulations and display mechanisms created by the mind, this consciousness also continually absorbs information displayed by the mind. For Pockett, the mind exists as an interface allowing an observing consciousness to view the universe of space and time.”
― The Electromagnetic Brain: EM Field Theories on the Nature of Consciousness
― The Electromagnetic Brain: EM Field Theories on the Nature of Consciousness
“Hoffman argues that conscious beings have not evolved to perceive the world as it actually is but have evolved to perceive the world in a way that maximizes survival. Borrowing images from his mathematical model of consciousness, Hoffman has us try to visualize our mind as it operates through myriad parallel program subroutines that take in and process sensory data, organize it, filter it, and generate a display that is appropriate for the experiencer, that subject or entity who observes the display. Hoffman frequently uses a metaphor: that we experience the mind as a computer desktop display. Our experiencing consciousness is separate from this display, and it is not the same as the mind. The objects that we perceive in time and space are filtered, simplified, and edited before being combined and projected out onto our “inner display.”
― The Electromagnetic Brain: EM Field Theories on the Nature of Consciousness
― The Electromagnetic Brain: EM Field Theories on the Nature of Consciousness
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