On 28 Nov 2017, at 01:28, David Nyman wrote:
https://www.sciencealert.com/your-consciousness-does-not-switch-off-during-a-dreamless-sleep-say-scientists
Wonderful! Thanks! It confirms Mechanism, both the one of Descartes
and the "theology" of the machine. And the salvia plant!
I have always personally suspect this "experientially", noticing that
the reason we "miss" it is that it very hard to memorize. It confirms
the idea that non-consciousness is relative amnesia, less neurons
makes you more conscious, the brain is something like a filter, nature
is a product of contemplation (Plotinus!),...
Since 2008 I write in a diary all my salvia experiences, but also
tobacco experience, occasional cannabis experience, occasional alcohol
experiences, and the usual coffee experiences and actually any
pertinent, for the consciousness study, experiences (as they all
influences the outcomes). Since 2008, the first salvia experience, the
mentions of the deep-sleep consciousness experiences has grown up
systematically, and since some years they are mentionned almost every
morning. It is very weird. I made once two "perpendicular sort-of-
dreams", which brought my attention on relations between quantum logic
and octonions, which I found also in a very interesting paper by John
Baes. This plunges me back in my feeling that little numbers could
quickly play a special role, like the number 24, and the exceptional
simple groups, and relation between groups of permutations of solution
of diophantine polynomials. We understand the metamathematical content
of arithmetic through big numbers
(indeed Gödel represented "2+2=4", that is
"ffa+ffa=ffffa" , (with f, a, +, = equal to even numbers: f is 3, a is
5, + is 7, = is 9)
by
(2^f)(3^f)(5^a)(7^+)(11^f)(13^f)(17^a)(19^=)(23^f)(29^f)(31^f)(37^f)
(39^a)
which is an astromical numbers. Today we use efficient coding, of
course, which adds intensional and modal relations. But it could be
that little numbers have already a rich and deep metamathematical
content, arithmetic would understand itself more quickly than our
apparent current detour through a quantum vacuum fluctuation going
wrong make us to think...
Otto Rossler once summed up Descartes Mechanism with "consciousness is
a prison". Mechanism seems a bit pernicious, as it predicts somehow
that we might get the solution of the mind-body problem when we die,
or "sleep" deep enough (cf Shakespeare), unfortunately we don't
memorize, and our billions years of prejudices can strikes back in a
second.
Very interesting (and relevant) studies!
Bruno
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