consciousness

Are we just a pattern? Of patterns? https://paragraph.xyz/@mirrorandloom/the-observer-paradox

Moderate-to-severe symptoms.


Writing a book /mirror-loom : https://paragraph.xyz/@mirrorandloom/

The people at Qualia Research Institute are traversing similar territory, you might want to check them out and get in conversation to battle test your ideas.

It's also interesting to observe that Buddhism speaks of this paradox through the lens of dependent origination, and you might find more there too. 

Good luck with the book!

I’m pretty much a Daoist and you’ll notice the “original pattern” is pretty much a yin-yang, so yes. Also familiar with co-dependent arising. 😀Complexity at Santa Fe Institute also crosses similar bounds. Will check out Qualia but honestly want to steer clear of consciousness question even if i think this might be a better lower level, axiomatic model than IIT.

I don’t know if I have an intention but I think it’s a useful framing, a useful pattern if you will that I feel I just need to put out there. My beginning inclination is that it pulls together quite a few currently disparate desperate views into something kind of lower level.