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Re:A New Proposal for How Mind Emerges from Matter by ffwd on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:54AM (#43193948)
The problem for me is that we haven't conceptualized what we mean by "reduced" consciousness. Reduced in what way?

If we create an analogy with audio - audio can have 2 properties: frequencies and volume. Frequencies are the content of the audio and volume is how "present" the sound is.

Well the same could be applied to consciousness. When we say reduced consciousness do we mean that the mind experiences less content (frequencies) or do we mean that all the frequencies are there but at a reduced volume?

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Re:A New Proposal for How Mind Emerges from Matter by IsTom on Thursday February 27, 2025 @08:34AM (#43194228)
Personal experience would tell me "both" - less complex thoughts with less intensity and with worse SNR.
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Re:A New Proposal for How Mind Emerges from Matter by wruza on Thursday February 27, 2025 @11:52AM (#43196095)
Reduced in what way?

In any.

C. is a complex thing, and these can fail to lower level in myriads of ways. You have to align millions* of things to make it work. The biological (in our case) nature of it allows for some slack rather than immediate breakdown, so there are thousands of parameters to play with.

* numbers arbitrary

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