So either energy carries an inherent conscious currency/property, or matter does. Or they do when they interact in complex or specific ways. — Benj96
Could consciousness be a form of energy like the rest? — Benj96
So either energy carries an inherent conscious currency/property, or matter does. Or they do when they interact in complex or specific ways. — Benj96
The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day. — Norbert Wiener, Computing Machines and the Nervous System. p. 132
I don't see how, because energy operates according to physical laws, it has no capacity for self-determination or any innate direction. As soon as living organisms appear, they act intentionally, in that they seek to maintain themselves, maintain homeostasis, grow, heal and reproduce. And they remember. Energy, as such, displays none of these attributes or capacities, and there's no reason to believe that it 'feels like' anything to be it. — Wayfarer
No. We can't harvest or store consciousness like the energy. There is no storage for consciousness. Consciousness is a live streaming.Could consciousness be a form of energy like the rest? — Benj96
Energy and matter are different forms of the same thing. E=mc^2 — petrichor
Do you have the idea of energy as a substance which would constitute one half of a dualism (the old classic of spirit/energy and matter)? — Nils Loc
. So if consciousness directs energy, it interacts with energy. Basically, you can see matter as just that, viz. a mechanism for energy interaction. — Pantagruel
So I see matter as a stable or "pent up/locked up" form of energy — Benj96
No. We can't harvest or store consciousness like the energy. There is no storage for consciousness. Consciousness is a live streaming. — L'éléphant
What then is 'unconsciousness' – non-energy? How then does it do work constitutive of consciousness? I don't think this "energy" analogy works, Benj.Could consciousness be a form of energy like the rest?
So, for example, hurricanes and viruses, salt crystals and stars, evolution and ant colonies are "conscious" (à la panpsychism)? :eyes:I'm inclined to believe that consciousness is the ability of the system to self organise. — Benj96
I don't see how, because energy operates according to physical laws, — Wayfarer
no capacity for self-determination or any innate direction. — Wayfarer
What then is 'unconsciousness' – non-energy? How then does it do work constitutive of consciousness? I don't think this "energy" analogy works, Benj. — 180 Proof
This would imply a completely non-material world where whatever constitutes a form of energy is sufficient in-itself for a kind of existence. Though if matter is really just a form of energy, it's all energy dude (and this is not profound). — Nils Loc
What does it feel like to be energy?
Running the hundred meter dash. — jgill
And yet Interference happens.Light cannot interact with itself at the speed limit. Because how does one impart action when velocity is unanimously equal? It's like the dog chasing it's tail but never quite reaching it. — Benj96
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