[FairfieldLife] Consciousness is a Mathematical Pattern?

2018-01-06 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Max Tegmark makes this argument. But what do you think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzCvlFRISIM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzCvlFRISIM

Re: [FairfieldLife] Consciousness is a Mathematical Pattern?

2016-11-21 Thread he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife]
FWIW, according to YS, sattva (the finest state of prakRti?) and puruSa ([pure] consciousness) are atyantaasaMkiirNa [ati-anta- a_saM-kiirNa], that is, absolutely distinct...

Re: [FairfieldLife] Consciousness is a Mathematical Pattern?

2016-11-20 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Tegmark recently said that consciousness is a state of matter. As such, he can eliminate the hard question of consciousness. He can very easily resolve the problem with objective reductionism--if what he says is true. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : No, he's still l

Re: [FairfieldLife] Consciousness is a Mathematical Pattern?

2016-11-20 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
No, he's still looking at it wrong. Consciousness is energy like electricity but probably a bit different (shakti). It is and is not a physical property at once (in the sense that physical property is being defined here). Your computer has a physical property but it can't do anything unless y

[FairfieldLife] Consciousness is a Mathematical Pattern?

2016-11-20 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Max Tegmark proposes a radical idea that may or may not prove computers can be sentient or that ETs exist in the stars, planets and moons that we see in the universe. What do you think? Consciousness is a mathematical pattern: Max Tegmark at TEDxCambridge 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?