In the last blog I claimed that consciousness is an emergent property of a complex information system and that conscious experience is caused by our mental model observing itself recursively. To Chalmers’ question what is it like to be conscious I’d have to answer, well, actually, it’s like having a little man in my head… Continue reading Information, quantum theory, entropy and other weird stuff
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The Hard Problem
I promised in the last blog to explain how Model Theory addresses Chalmers’ “hard problem”. Well here we go… Consciousness, it seems to me, is simply information organised in such a way that it observes itself. I’m proposing that the way the mind works is in terms of a model or simulation of the known… Continue reading The Hard Problem
More Research and a Recap on the “Easy Problems”
Returning to this blog after a gap of over two years, I thought I’d do some more research on what others have to say about consciousness. There’s a lot of stuff out there! But I find it all a bit dispiriting. On the one hand there’s a lot of philosophers arguing about rather obscure distinctions… Continue reading More Research and a Recap on the “Easy Problems”
On LSD (don’t try this at home!)
Like many of my generation, I “experimented with drugs” in my youth. The most interesting was LSD. The extraordinary and sometimes scary effects of this drug are still vivid in my memory today and I believe they are explicable in terms of Model Theory. The most obvious effect of LSD is on sensory perception, particularly… Continue reading On LSD (don’t try this at home!)
Model Theory and Art
Well so much for the science, what about Art? What, if anything, can Model Theory tell us about our appreciation of paintings, music, literature and poetry? Like consciousness, art, however we define it, has always been an integral feature of the human condition since the beginning of time and across all cultures. Like consciousness, art… Continue reading Model Theory and Art
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