Re:How working memory could give rise to consciousness
by estearum on Saturday July 04, 2026 @06:38PM
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Good luck drawing a line between life/living systems and otherwise.
The panpsychist answer is (unfortunately) the only one that even remotely passes the sniff test.
Re:How working memory could give rise to consciousness
by d00d0ff000 on Sunday July 05, 2026 @07:24PM
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No need. In another comment I mentioned a stone has dormant potential of consciousness, and life systems merely animate it.
Someone else posted a decent link to the relationship of “holographic” memory and consciousness. I do not speak with that as my source though it is a relevant idea.
Before you call it “quantum magic” understand that the “potential of existence” is the foundation of existential reality and we are “just inflecting” upon this through the electrochemical biotechnology of our brains.
I propose all life and living systems are “of consciousness” however primitive, and memory, temporal awareness, even sense of self are holographic renderings within this domain.