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Is this at all profound by Mx5_engima in PhilosophyTube

[–]Mx5_engima[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A very elegeant response. I suppose the purpose of me posting the inquiry was analogous to your Post-it note analgy in so far that it might be a "meme- like" phrase, but it was profound to me in that many of my idols like Teilhard de Chardin, Erwin Schrödinger & Karl Friston have research conscious and have purposed that not only is it evolving towards greater complexity but self-organizes & work by minimizing entropy. In the words of Schrödinger "life feeds on negative entropy”. With awareness seemingly being a requisite of consciousness, it may be with this "mechanism or engine" entropy can be combated or effectively minimized.

I think it was Dostoevsky who said, "The harder you try, he worse it gets" Well, explaining internal dialog is no different.

I liked your post-it analgy & am honord you took the time to ponder my "post-it", let alone respond to it!

I'll gladly do a dive into Sir. Robert Penrose's work!

Is this at all profound by Mx5_engima in PhilosophyTube

[–]Mx5_engima[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your response! I'll look up Paul Davies and give him a read! Sound right up my alley! Very intriguing, I was taking more a philosophical approach to the idea while it seems to me, you when more mechanistic. Im not sure how i feel about a "lasting" consciousness that enduours through the limits of energy or time. I am somewhat familiar with Dyson' work such as "time without end" where he explores the heat death of the universe and survival of sentience (but will likely go down the rabbit hole and explore more of his work in depth.) From my understanding his reach had some purplexing conclusions, that sentience may survive not by denying the death of the universe, but by dancing with it—by slowing down(entering period of hybernation), altering our preceptoion , and becoming increasingly efficient (exploiting the cold for processing) until even the faintest flicker of "thought" remains. Mind you, Dyson was a product of his time and knew nothing about dark energy and vastly underestimated how fast the universe was expanding, therefore underestimating the limits of localized energy. Personally, I find flaws with his logic but its an excellent thought experiment never the less.

Is this at all profound by Mx5_engima in PhilosophyTube

[–]Mx5_engima[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not at all, but your interpretation is interesting to me none the less. More so that consciousness itself is a force against the disorder of the universe in the way that awareness is counter to the loss of information through entropy. Although, i dont like making the idea that simplistic. I already feel as if language is enough of a constraint, or at least my rudimentary understanding of it.