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It's becoming clearer that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding. By this I mean, can any particular theory be used to create a human adult level conscious machine. My bet is on the late Gerald Edelman's Extended Theory of Neuronal Group Selection. The lead group in robotics based on this theory is the Neurorobotics Lab at UC at Irvine. Dr. Edelman distinguished between primary consciousness, which came first in evolution, and that humans share with other conscious animals, and higher order consciousness, which came to only humans with the acquisition of language. A machine with primary consciousness will probably have to come first. The extended TNGS is a materialist theory. I believe the physical world is objectively real because I can't ignore the physical suffering in the world. I don't believe it is the only reality, however. I believe physical reality, and all other realities, manifest from the one fundamental reality of spiritual love. But even though the physical world is a manifestation of this deeper reality, I still believe it is real. It makes more sense to me that a manifestation of something real would also be real.
Consciouness is an illusion? It takes consciousness to perceive an illusion.
My neighbor's dog cracks me up. She keeps a large mirror on the floor leaning against the wall for the dog. It took a while to recognize why her dog Henry went straight to the mirror whenever he wanted to go outside and do his business instead of going directly to her. He ignores the image of himself and instead peers into it up close and looks directly to the side.
He sees the world inside the mirror differently than we do and somewhere along the line he realized that the woman in the mirror responded to his needs faster than the one sitting behind him. He doesn't recognize himself in the mirror. Dogs are not self-aware. He thinks it's a window and behind it is another dog living with another mistress inside another room.
Please read about the problem of other minds. To affirm that people generally are conscious is not science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZaHG1eh4-A
Also, to describe consciousness as being an "illusion" is illogical, and nobody should point to this assertion with professional pride. An illusion is when a conscious entity has an experience that objectively does not exist. But when we say someone is a conscious entity – having an experience – we are accepting that they are, in fact, conscious, and thus to call this an "illusion" would be a logical contradiction.
how did consciousness evolve??? it just is…what the what!!!
it didn't evolve
stop the gaslighting
Our brains playing tricks on us
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”