From: Colin Hales (colin@versalog.com.au)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 17:11:13 MDT
Here’s an interesting slant on Panpychism and a link to any plausibility in
the film AI’s premise of consciousness being an artifact of the substance of
spacetime itself. Personally I don’t think we need this to get
consciousness, but it’s a nice one if you’re a Panpychist.
Colin Hales
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In a message dated 04/22/02 11:33:02 AM, jesse_cook@juno.com writes:
>On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:08:59 EDT leonmaurer@aol.com writes:
>
>> This is scary since it might change our entire conception of reductive
>> science as being able to explain all phenomenology of the universe.
>
>If you are implying that all science is "reductive", I think that you are
>mistaken. I'll just give one example to the contrary (all that is
>required to refute a premise):
The reference to "reductive science" was not meant to include "all science"
but just that aspect of science which attempts to describe generalities by
studying the particulars, or to arrive at an understanding of the whole by
the examination of its parts.
>> Perhaps, work in the new areas of Superstring/M-brane theory that
>> considers space as being a ten (or more) dimensional (energy field)
>> multiplexity might give us some answers to the problem of explaining
>> these "hard problems" of consciousness.
>
>I doubt it seriously. Although those *theories* (there are five or six
>of them) are attempts to arrive at a "theory of everything", they only
>apply at the sub-sub-atomic particle level, i.e., at the level *below*
>leptons (electrons and muons) and quarks.
Superstring/M-brane theory is a consolidation of all six separate string
theories (which are simply six different viewpoints of the same theory) into
one all inclusive theory of everything that includes both the super-super
quantum space above the quarks, and the sub–sub quantum space between them
and the zero-point of so called "vacuum" space -- which is really *full*
of energy... Thus, apparently, closing the paradoxical gap between quantum
and relativity theories. It also implies that all mass-energy, from quarks
to atomic matter, is rooted in, or are aspects of a fundamental radiant
energy that is, essentially, composed of lines of primal force that are in
the form of vibrating "strings" whose frequencies can range from near zero
to
near infinite.
As a result, some theorists have considered that consciousness (in its
aspect
of awareness) could be the inherent nature of the zero-point itself (which
is
*everywhere* in the phenomenal universe)... And, that all objective physical
(mass-energy) phenomena is holistically rooted in its spin or "spinergy" --
that not only can carry information in the form of proto-interference
patterns of angular momenta -- but also can be the basis of the entire post
"big bang" cosmic involution and evolution being an inseparable holographic
continuum. This paradigm, if proven, could certainly change our entire
conception of reductive (or physicalist) science.
Such a paradigm is the fundamental basis of my multidimensional,
holographic,
coenergetic field theory of perceptive consciousness (that, incidentally,
besides not contradicting relativity and quantum theories, also seems to be
consistent with some ancient occult [Buddhist, Vedantist, etc.] metaphysical
theories of both consciousness and cosmogenesis.)
Leon Maurer
http://tellworld.com/Astro.Biological.Coenergetics
http://users.aol.com/uniwldarts/uniworld.artisans.guild/chakrafield.html
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