Great scene from "Heart of Glass" always pervades my memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOF23dA7UJg
John > -----Original Message----- > From: justcamel via AGI [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 8:44 PM > To: AGI > Subject: Re: AGI Dreams [agi] AGI box experiment ;D > > 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. > > > > -- > > Logan Streondj > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > AGI > > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > > RSS Feed: > > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/23508161-fa52c03c > > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered > by > > Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/248029- > 82d9122f > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > -35e0de32 > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
