The Hard Question of

Consciousness

Introduction

Why this page?

Why am I me? and Who am I?

Your mind can be inspected through observation. The mind likes to talk in words, but when the words are quietened, other thoughts are found to underly those thoughts that are built on words. This is the abstract mind. The worded mind has evolved to communicate with other intelligent systems, this has allowed humans to pass on what they understand. This can cause flaws in human thinking, where erroneous data is passed from intelligent system to intelligent system. Some data gets caught in a loop, where the intelligent system cannot break out of erroneous thought, thinking the same thoughts over and over, thinking that they’re associated with something in reality, whereas in reality that thought only exists in the mind of the intelligent system. Sentience is the mother of intelligence, where consciousness is complexes of sentient and intelligent systems interacting. Sentient experience can cause intelligent systems to settle on incorrect data and erroneous beliefs. There are layers to your mind, you might define them as the conscious and the unconscious, but these define a polarity of consciousness, whereas it is in fact a spectrum. As sensory inputs are observed they diminish, this reveals those thoughts that are beyond the senses, this is the first layer to strip away.

Sentience

The Blueprint of Consciousness

Sequential thought and incorrect data problem. When one tackles a problem, the problem is thought about in a series of steps. Where correct data is processed in the wrong order, then the wrong answer will ensue. Where a system has the incorrect data, then the system cannot answer the question correctly. Where an intelligence system does not have a process that can process correct data, then the system will not understand what it needs to understand (this problem has a solution, whereby many processes are created, where one such process will be optimal, and will be able to solve the problem, or solve the problem optimally. As with the genome, neural networks evolve through evolutionary history, where a basic network can add features to accommodate the evolving environment.

Know Your Way Around the Brain

Humans are not so different from each other, it’s just the information that has been embedded within us, that information from within the environment that we have been subject to, that’s what makes us seem so different. This is but an illusion and has been the cause of many human conflicts.

The Stream

Networks