To speak of thinking should first answer what is thought? We each experience our unfolding selves and live each of us within the inner drama of our minds. It is experimentally known that brain activity precedes conscious awareness by significant periods of time, as much as a half a second (which might as well be forever in terms of the throughput of processing on a 10^11 node parallel machine with 10^14 network arcs… e.g. a human brain).
We are post facto manifestations of consciousness living nearly perfect illusions of spontaneous being… experiencing ourselves as the source of our own being. But, our being, essentially has already happened in that incredible massively parallel machine, and MRI evidence (for example) supports this this. I have evolved to see myself as the narrator of my mind; to see our conscious ego selves as narrators of mind. We do not decide… our minds decide. We sense ourselves as having an identity… and of course we do, not arguing that, but it seems that our identity is actually a dynamic consensus of our mind quorum. Highly parallel quorum based decisional networks seem to play a central role in the executive functioning of the brain. These networks also seem to be characterized by also being wide area networks linking distance neural columns and densely crackling regions with other regions in the brain. Executive decision making in the brain seems to involve neurons from many regions on the cortexual sheet, and not just in the frontal cortex. All of us… unless some amongst us are already AI (I jest) are neuronal beings… we all arise from vast crackling networks of electro-chemical nature populated by a growing zoo of different neuron types and a growing awareness of the subtle roles that glial cells (the majority of brain cells) play in critical activities for consciousness such as long term memory formation. I, personally find myself fascinated by the massively parallel, highly noise tolerant, self-healing algorithms that may soon be discovered (also by studying how brains work) underlying the emergence of consciousness and self-awareness… fascinated and also concerned for how it could be abused by power. In reality we are crackling electric chatrooms – the brain is very noisy environment, but this allows it to also be incredibly efficient, using negligible power. The signal to noise ratio is extremely flat; current computer architectures could not function in this environment. Current architecture relies on highly predictable outcomes. When a gate is flipped it is flipped (with a six sigma guarantee). The brain/mind we experience is that quiet center. We clearly hear ourselves reify our being. It seems so balanced and 3-D perfect all around us… so stable. We sense our minds and think we are thinking. But are we really? Isn’t it more accurate – seeing as how we are post facto manifestations of a phenomena that has already been in play before we experience it as being in play – more accurate to describe ourselves as the narrators of our minds. We are the manifestation of network consensus… and we are the focus of network quorum decisional processes. I see it as being logical to search for the mystery of consciousness in the working of our brain/mind and humbling as it may be for the ego… we happen, ourselves, after the fact. Cheers Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
