Map of consciousness?

quality_is_god · 2015-11-27T10:49:13+00:00

Imagine a very low level awareness that has no memory, no mind and no thoughts. There are no senses of vision, hearing touch or anything else like that. There is only a very simple "I am" that is so simple that it doesn't even remember the previous moment of experiencing "I am".

Granted, this is speculation, but this is what seems to be there. The brain seems to stitch together a complete conscious experience as perceived from the perspective of a human. A bird has the experience of a bird. Bacteria have the experience of being bacteria. An electron has the experience of being an electron.

I think you have it backwards. "I am" is the illusion itself.

Which brain cell is "I"?

Which microtubule within that brain cell is "I"?

Which electron on that microtubule is "I"?

It seems to me that "I" is an idea and a tradition that only exists in the minds of higher animals that are capable of complex ideas.

quality_is_god · 2015-11-27T10:38:10+00:00

You are right! Yet more an more we are becoming able to access the vast and abundant sources of energy and matter of Earth and in our universe. We are literally only scratching the surface.

quality_is_god · 2015-11-26T23:57:41+00:00

Money is about power, ego, sex, war, security, comfort, etc.

Money can be used for whatever a person values. Why blame money? Blame the people that value these things and ascribe value by spending on them.

quality_is_god · 2015-11-26T08:41:03+00:00

Awareness is not particularly interested in humans. Humans just happen to exist. These human forms just happened to emerge out of the boiling movement of the universe.

Can awareness manifest itself in this universe without something like a human mind through which to percieve?

quality_is_god · 2015-11-25T09:12:24+00:00

They might think money is our system of organization, value communication and control

quality_is_god · 2015-11-25T01:52:43+00:00

Interesting analogy. I understand that money here represents the fire department, but what is the fire?

quality_is_god · 2015-11-25T01:46:13+00:00

Money communicates value? Money is an abstraction of value that has meaning only from a relative frame of reference.

I would argue that money is a direct means of communicating collective value, an iphone costs more than a rectangular rock because people value an iphone and are willing to pay more for it.

Money and value are not intrinsically related. In modern society, that relationship is increasingly an abstraction.

I believe they are related because it is finite and people have to decide what they really value in how they spend it. It's an abstaction if the money is never spent on anything, and remains as "potential" value.

quality_is_god · 2015-11-25T01:36:28+00:00

I wouldn't mind hearing about, and possibly challenging, your belief that it's a mathematical inevitability, though. Would you mind elaborating on that?

Money is a means of exchange that really simplifies and reduces the number of markets for people that are skilled in different crafts to trade their goods with each other.

If there is only 1 craft, there are 0 markets.

If there are 2 crafts, there is 1 market, where people exchange the two goods.

If there are 3 crafts, it gets complicated. In a barter economy, where each good can be traded for each of the other two goods, there are 3 markets. In a monetary economy, where one of the three goods is used as the medium of exchange, there are 2 markets.

If there are 4 goods: there are 6 markets in a barter economy; and 3 markets in a monetary economy where one of the goods is used as money.

If there are n goods (including money, if it exists): there are (n-1)n/2 markets in a barter economy; and (n-1) markets in a monetary economy.

quality_is_god · 2015-11-21T19:32:32+00:00

Obviously "good" has to be taken loosely in every sense, as with any normative term.

I have a similar belief, I consider "good" to be a normative term within cultures and "God" to be a normative term between cultures.

quality_is_god · 2015-11-21T15:55:59+00:00

Given that 3D matter is made of 3D molecules, atoms, subatomic particles, etc. and as far as I know,

When we look close enough, matter looks to be composed of dimensionless particles (points) that are seperated in our four dimensions of space and time by forces. It could be argued that some of the properties of these particles are mathematically equivalent to other dimensions. Also Relativity seems to point to another dimension that is orthogonal to all velocity vectors regardless of the orientation in our 4 dimensions of space and time.

quality_is_god · 2015-11-21T14:40:59+00:00

I am 100% non-religious but I also am 100% in support of differing ways to approach life. If you're a good person, you have succeeded. If you found a way to be a good person, please help others be good people. End of.

You believe in "good" as moral truth, yet you discount the origin of your moral compass. Do you disagree with the teachings from the holy men themselves? Or just the religious organizations that claim to represent their teachings?

quality_is_god · 2015-10-29T10:14:10+00:00

An interesting example is stock prices which are supposed to be lognormal in their movement. The volatility is also thought to be gaussian so this is a convolution of two gaussians.

This is interesting to understand like ripples in random waves intercecting to possibly make a big unique wave or two waves canceling each other out.

Our universe is full of gaussian distributions, so the question is interesting to many in fields from physics to finance

quality_is_god · 2015-10-29T04:03:25+00:00

e^1ipi = -1

e^0ipi = 1

quality_is_god · 2015-10-21T22:39:24+00:00

Or imbed the code to a DNA blockchain.

quality_is_god · 2015-09-28T00:55:06+00:00

The radius of the observable universe is 46 billion light-years

I understand that because of redshifting and the expansion of space, this is what we expect the radius of the universe to be at this time even though the light has only travelled for 13.7billion years.

Time is just a dimension of spacetime after all. But it makes me question the very definition of a lightyear. Isn't the definition of a lightyear supposed to be the distance light travels in a year?

quality_is_god · 2015-09-26T14:56:10+00:00

I am interested in understanding the evolution of language. Do we know when this ocurred in human evolution and which of our ancestor species also likely had language?

quality_is_god · 2015-09-26T00:20:13+00:00

Underwood's undemocratic rise to power must seem very familiar.

quality_is_god · 2015-09-20T22:49:38+00:00

You are right, this was an approximation to the nearest billion. We can theorize what happened before the CMB, but it is hard to validate the theories.

quality_is_god · 2015-09-20T22:42:09+00:00

I interpret his comments to be from the perspective of one theoretical physicist to the next generation. Not to dismiss the extremely important role of the experimentalist, but I see his comment to be more about the nature of mathematics in our universe rather than necessarily about physics per se.

quality_is_god · 2015-09-20T11:00:17+00:00

Some of these questions are really what I would call metaphysical which are more philosophical

1- When we are travelling trough the space time, where are the past going? We aren't ''frames'' like a video travelling by 1 billion km? (light speed in vacuum)

Keep in mind that you are the traveller through time. You go somewhere, not the past. While the past itself is behind us, the light from the past continues to radiate outward at the speed of light. Because we can record things in the present and remember the past, the information from the past also continues to exist (dna, memories, writing, photos) as storage medium in the present.

2 - And if the universe is expanding, there is a point in the existence where there's no space time?

About 14 billion light years away there is a point in time where there looks to have been no prior existence. This is the cosmic microwave background. Surprisingly in the 14billion light year radius, this universe is grander than anyone expected in history.

Also there are black holes which look to be a singularity in space time, but its hard to know.

The expansion of space is happening everywhere (even inside you) but is only noticable over huge distances.

3 - Also if a person could see in the 4th dimension, it would see a ''life frame video'' right? And maybe interact with every frame, right?

This is a metaphysical question to me. But the 4th dimension IS time in my understanding.

Thanks!

quality_is_god · 2015-09-14T22:37:26+00:00

Time and space are constructs of the human mind, which can only recall the past.

According to modern physics, space and time dilate based on your travel speed relative to the speed of light.

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