Re:The unending quest to explain consciousness
by hans1729 on Friday December 06, 2019 @08:30AM
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>where is "feeling like something" coming from?
Everytime I think about this, I end up with "the fact that something is not in the state it desires to be in seems sufficient and necessary".
Maybe electrochemical imbalance is what's experienced as consciousness, all the way down to the smallest particles (or even beyond) - then, organic consciousness would just be an immense abstraction of the same thing that drives physics itself.
I feel like this is satisfying, but then again, I'm not Joscha Bach :-)
Everytime I think about this, I end up with "the fact that something is not in the state it desires to be in seems sufficient and necessary".
Maybe electrochemical imbalance is what's experienced as consciousness, all the way down to the smallest particles (or even beyond) - then, organic consciousness would just be an immense abstraction of the same thing that drives physics itself.
I feel like this is satisfying, but then again, I'm not Joscha Bach :-)