Copy Me, 4
Being conscious is being able to form memories.
forming memories
~ forming an identity
~ forming a causal chain of thoughts
To form memories, one needs to access and then store its own states.
But due to metadox (paradox), no one, or no single part of the brain, can access its own now-here state directly.
That is why different parts of the brain have to communicate and coordinate in order to be conscious.
— Me@2013-05-30 1:47 PM
2013.06.23 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
So when we’re awake and conscious, a single shock initiates a series of responses. Because they are well-connected, the different parts of the cerebral cortex are able to communicate and the integration results in this being conscious.
But when we’re asleep and unconscious, the communication channels temporarily shut down. So the same shock produces only a short likewise response.
— The Secret You
— BBC Horizon Documentary
conscious
Etymology
From Latin conscius, itself from con– (a form of com– (“together”) + scire (“to know”).
— Wiktionary on conscious
Consciousness and self-awareness is due to the communications between different parts of the brain.
— Me@2013-06-06
2013.06.06 Thursday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
There is no direct self-interaction.
An observation or measurement is an interaction between the observer and the observed, involving two objects. So there is logically impossible to have direct self-observation.
— Me@2013-05-29 12:09:46 AM
You cannot see yourself directly from your own point of view. Instead, you can only see your mirror, photo, and video images. In other words, you can only indirectly see yourself.
— Me@2013-01-20 01:08:34 AM
— Me@2013-05-31 10:45:49 PM
2013.05.31 Friday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
Recursion 10
Consciousness is a self aware.
— Me@2012-03-09 10:44:35 PM
2012.08.15 Wednesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
Consciousness
Infinite regress in consciousness is the formation of an infinite series of “inner observers” as we ask the question of who is observing the output of the neural correlates of consciousness in the study of subjective consciousness.
— Wikipedia on Infinite regress
2012.05.05 Saturday ACHK
In theoretical physics and quantum field theory, a particle’s self-energy represents the contribution to the particle’s energy, or effective mass, due to interactions between the particle and the system it is part of.
— Wikipedia on Self-energy
2012.04.02 Monday ACHK
夢中多重自我
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A human mind is a fractal.
— Me@2010.08.02
2012.02.18 Saturday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
Layer, 3 | 水平 7 | Onion self 5
The deeper the consciousness, the more powerful it is.
— Me@2010.08.06
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| The diagram is not the truth. Instead, it is an analogy. It is a model only. |
The deepest self is the universe.
— Me@2012-01-16 2:20:19 AM
The diagram is not the truth. Instead, it is an analogy. It is a model only.
— Me@2012.02.11
2012.02.11 Saturday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
I am a Strange Loop, 3.2
When I am conscious, different times of myself-s interact.
When different times of the same (software) object interact, there comes consciousness.
The past is part of the present.
So consciousness comes from the whole-part interaction.
— Me@2012-01-24 11:03:37 AM
2012.02.05 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
Onion self 4 | 洋蔥自我 4 | Inner and outer, 4 | T-duality, 4
One’s deepest self is the universe.
That’s why everyone’s deepest self is the same.
— Me@2012-01-26 4:30:09 PM
2012.01.28 Saturday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
I am a Strange Loop, 3 | 自我思源
When an object gets information from another object, there is no consciousness.
When an object starts to observe (entangle with) itself, there comes consciousness.
— Me@2012-01-01 9:15:01 PM
2012.01.24 Tuesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
洋蔥自我 3
Inner and outer, 2
Only the deepest self (pure self, 純元我) is real.
The deepest self is the universe.
— Me@2012-01-16 2:20:19 AM
2012.01.18 Wednesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
The neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) constitute the minimal set of neuronal events and mechanisms sufficient for a specific conscious percept. Neuroscientists use empirical approaches to discover neural correlates of subjective phenomena. The set should be minimal because, while the entire brain is clearly sufficient to give rise to any given conscious experience, the question is which of its components were necessary to produce it.
— Wikipedia on Neural correlates of consciousness
2011.11.07 Monday ACHK
Cumulative concept of time, 8
Since my present-self have the memory of my younger self, my younger self is part of my present-self.
1. What is the meaning of the “same” file?
If two files contain exactly the same data, they are the “same” file.
2. Memory is the definition of identity.
Since I have the memory of my younger self, I am the same person as my younger self. Moreover, since I have more memory than my younger self, I am more than my younger self. My younger self is part of me.
3. If I am a book, my younger self is like the one with fewer chapters:
younger self ~ chapter 1,2,3
older self ~ chapter 1,2,3,4,5,6
— Me@2011.07.10
— Me@2011.08.04
2011.08.04 Thursday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
Philosopher John Locke published “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” in 1689, in which he proposed the following criterion for personal identity: if you remember thinking something in the past, then you are the same person as he or she who did the thinking. Later philosophers raised various logical snarls, most of them caused by applying Boolean logic, the prevalent logic system at the time. It has been proposed that modern fuzzy logic can solve those problems, showing that Locke’s basic idea is sound if one treats personal identity as a continuous rather than discrete value.
– Wikipedia
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2008.04.13 Saturday ACHK
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In 1895, in his novel, The Time Machine, H.G. Wells wrote, “There is no difference between time and any of the three dimensions of space except that our consciousness moves along it.” He added, “Scientific people … know very well that time is only a kind of space.”
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— Wikipedia
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2009.03.12 Thursday
Physics Town 