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- Beirut Hellfire Society –– Rawi Hage
- Because even those who are all noot there, if you know what I mean, have something to contribute. [[Wisdom]] doesn't require full [[consciousness]].
- Homo Deus –– Yuval Harari
- "Mind or [[consciousness]] for modern [[religion]] is the equivalent of the soul for ancient ones. "
- Homo Deus –– Yuval Harari
- Some scientists concede that [[consciousness]] is real and may actually have moral and political value, but it fulfill no biological value. Consciousness is instead a biologically useless by-product of certain brain processes.
- "We cannot prove or disprove many claims of consciousness, because there are in fact variations on the Problem of Other Minds. Since we aren't familiar with any algorithm that requires consciousness, anything an animal does can be seen as the product of non-conscious algorithms rather than of conscious memories and plans."
- Some scientists concede that [[consciousness]] is real and may actually have moral and political value, but it fulfill no biological value. Consciousness is instead a biologically useless by-product of certain brain processes.
- Homo Deus –– Yuval Harari
- Until today, high intelligence always went hand in hand with a developed [[consciousness]]. Only conscious beings could outperform tasks that required a lot of intelligence, like playing chess, or driving a car, or diagnosing a disease. However, we are now developing new types of non-conscious beings that can out perform us in these tasks. For all these tasks are based on pattern recognition and non-conscious algorithms may soon excel human consciousness in recognizing patterns.
- So, which of the two is really important, intelligence or consciousness?
- Until today, high intelligence always went hand in hand with a developed [[consciousness]]. Only conscious beings could outperform tasks that required a lot of intelligence, like playing chess, or driving a car, or diagnosing a disease. However, we are now developing new types of non-conscious beings that can out perform us in these tasks. For all these tasks are based on pattern recognition and non-conscious algorithms may soon excel human consciousness in recognizing patterns.
- Made You Think –– Homo Deus
- Mind or [[consciousness]] for modern [[religion]] is the equivalent of the soul for ancient ones.
- What we call consciousness is just observing what the body is doing. (Who is observing? Strange loops)
- Reference to: [[Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter]])
- Brain vs Mind - we don't have a good grasp on the mind or what it is, or whether it is even there at all.
- The concept of mind doesn't square with anything scientific.
- What we call consciousness is just observing what the body is doing. (Who is observing? Strange loops)
- Mind or [[consciousness]] for modern [[religion]] is the equivalent of the soul for ancient ones.
- What Does It All Mean –– Thomas Nagel
- Your experiences are inside your mind with a kind of insideness that is different from the way that your brain is inside your head. Someone else can open up your head and see what's inside, but they can't cut open your mind and look into it atleast not in the same way.
- The view that the brain is the seat of unconsciousness, but that its conscious states are not just physical states, is called [[dual aspect theory]]
- If #consciousness itself could be identified with some kind of physical state, the way would be open for a unified physical theory of mind and body, and therefore for a unified physical theory of the universe. But the reasons against a purely physical theory of consciousness are strong enough to make it seem likely that a physical theory of the whole of reality is impossible.