Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Asking a Theoretical Physicist About the Physics of Consciousness | Roger Penrose | EP 244" video.

  1. Everybody thinks everybody knows what consciousness is! It's one term philosopher's would be wise to DEFINE with great care! Similarly, the notion of "imagination" deserves definition, elaboration. The casual use of such terms muddies the waters.
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  2. Maybe it "can be all these things simultaneously" from different perspectives. The thing doesn't change in itself just because it appears differently from different angles. It makes the most sense to me that time should be a property of materiality--the denser the matter the slower the time frame expressed...a given "collapse" rate for a given density...
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  3. "Energy = frequency = mass"?! Hmm...alternate manifestations of "the one thing"? "Our thinking...the realm of consciousness..." is a juicy and fruit-filled expression! hehehe...Thinking is just articulated emotion, which latter is processed sensation...Consciousness is the capacity of matter to be responsive...Consciousness is the impetus to associate...Association is the mechanism of universal reality--it is its manner of function...It's what the one universal mind does to produce the entirety of existence...Relentless, multiform association, producing complex relationships, and patterns of relationships...interactively, no less...The brain/nervous system functions much like a radio receiver, tuning to distinguish a particular "pattern" from all the others occupying the same "space"...Awareness is a radio "ping" of a particular "pattern", perhaps "representing" a particular object, or idea, or perception, that you have EXPERIENCED. Experience CREATES a buoy in the universal substratum of reality that is "ping-able"; this is the residence of "memory". And it belongs to the universe as much as it does to you.
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  4. Yes...don't be overly confident in any of your analytical systems..."understanding is not computational"...In my terms that's, "awareness is not computational", because the experience of "understanding" is accompanied by the "ah-ha" moment of realization, which is the essential nature of "awareness". "Consciousness" is a clumsy object to work with...it's too big, and vague to be very useful.
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