Ken Wilber for example stays conscious even anaesthetized. Consciousness
is the fundamental substrate everything is "made of". Unconsciousness
during sleep is not a given ... it's a symptom of a spiritually
underdeveloped human ... or a high signal to noise brain<->consciousness
ratio ... or too much thought if you will.
When you play a demanding video game you often forget about our physical
reality for quite some time ... it's almost the same thing. The video
game occupies most of your brain and your thoughts. Your ego develops
attachments with the video game world, your characters power, status and
all the stuff you posses, etc., etc., ... and it clings to the virtual
world. After you have died enough times (reincarnation or recycling of
consciousness) and after you have collected enough cumulative wisdom the
entire thing becomes boring and you transcend it.
There are hundreds of books on reducing your consciousness entropy level
beyond a threshold after which your ego no longer clings to this virtual
physical reality.
Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, native American philosophy, Christianity,
Judaism, Islam, etc. are all about that kind of entropy reduction and
about increasing your awareness beyond said threshold. Once you
transcend your ego all that's left is pure love and awareness ...
religion just uses a lot of weird an ancient metaphors and analogies for
that rather simple process and many religious people don't even
understand what they are talking about. :-/
On 25.12.2014 01:49, Logan Streondj via AGI wrote:
In regards to this whole sleeping is loss of consciousness business.
Seems like a false dichotomy, or black and white thinking to me.
Consciousness is really a continuum, at some points we are more alert
than others. For instance sometimes I take a nap, but only get down to
theta brain waves, so maintain semi-conscious awareness of my
surroundings, however afterwards I still feel refreshed.
It is only when my consciousness descends down into delta-wave that
physical and sensory input processing becomes
so slow as to be negligible.
During this time is when the brain switches temporary calcium bonds
into permanent connections, prunes connections and does other forms of
maintenance and repair. cerrubelum shifts body around to maintain
blood flow.
It is the reprogramming or recoding of the brain and body.
Of course there are the increasing bursts of REM sleep.
Typically they test the same new connections,
similar to agile software development debugging.
So if you recall your dream experience it feels like the same thing is
happening over and over again, but getting longer and longer.
Naturally the memory typically goes on hiatus during this coding and
debuging phase, just as you generally don't want executives giving you
new things to code while you are debuging the last stuff.
Also as a developer you don't generally keep logs of testing and
debugging as part of the production system.
In summary a General Intelligence Operating System can also sleep and
dream. After having experienced the day, and made note of various
areas it may improve, at night it may recode/install new things, and
test them, debug them, and have the upgraded version of self ready for
the new day.
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Logan Streondj
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