> On 13 Jun 2020, at 15:00, Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 3:45:40 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> 
>> On 12 Jun 2020, at 11:52, Philip Thrift <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> On Friday, June 12, 2020 at 4:43:59 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>> 
>> So when I say that a number can think, observe, or even just be (Turing) 
>> universal, it is always a short manner to say that relatively to some “base” 
>> phi_i, that number belongs to a (true) relation making it mirroring 
>> perfectly (at the mechanist substitution level) the behaviour of a person, 
>> as related to its brain.
>> 
>> Bruno
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> But can it be conscious?
> 
> 
> If “it” means the body, or the (extensional) number, the answer is no. Now, 
> the person associated to all equivalent relative states can be conscious. 
> Indeed, all relative universal number in arithmetic initiate a consciousness 
> flux, and the physical reality emerges from that internal arithmetic flux, 
> somehow. To be continued.
> 
> Bruno
> 
> 
> No one but me and you will probably even look at the abstracts of this fall's 
> The Science of Consciousness conference (online presentations) 
> 
> https://eagle.sbs.arizona.edu/sc/abs_report_bysession.php?p=C 
> <https://eagle.sbs.arizona.edu/sc/abs_report_bysession.php?p=C>
> 
> (these are just the 139 concurrent session papers)
> 
> but there's a lot of stuff that might be fun to read (for those who have any 
> imagination), like
> 
> How In The Penrose-Hameroff Paradigm The Forms of Space-time Curvatures Can 
> Be Connected With The Eternal Platonic Ideas Or Forms In The Qualia Of Our 
> Experiences And Choices
> Gerard Blommestijn (Amstelveen, Netherlands)  
> 
> The Penrose-Hameroff paradigm plays a crucial role in the current shift from 
> a causal and local (classical physics) view of brain processes to a 
> quantum-mechanical indeterministic and non-local, entanglement view. The most 
> important ingredient is the Orchestrated Objective Reduction process (Orch 
> OR). Each Orch OR event is a self-selection of space-time geometry, coupled 
> to the brain via microtubules and other biomolecules. Each instantaneous (and 
> non-computable) Orch OR or self-collapse is equated with a discrete conscious 
> event, a perception or a choice, the outcome of the Orch OR. Roger Penrose 
> has contended that, at a deeper level of description, the choice of which 
> outcome of an Orch OR event will occur (which of the superposed space-time 
> geometries will become real) may arise as a result of a presently unknown 
> non-computational mathematical/physical (i.e. Platonic realm) theory, that is 
> it cannot be deduced algorithmically. In my presentation I want to suggest 
> what the outline of such a non-computational theory might look like: The 
> central idea is that the outcome of an Orch OR is not determined by an 
> already existing hidden variable, but by a non computable free choice of the 
> ontologically independent consciousness essence, the I of the mind, defined 
> as abstract Ego by John Von Neumann. In the common non-quantum mechanical 
> view of brain processes the Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC) must 
> somehow encode all details of the sensory and mental experiences that we have 
> at a given moment, as well as all choices for physical and mental movement 
> that we make at that time. Similarly the space-time geometry selected in an 
> Orch OR process must contain the same detailed information of all these 
> qualia of the total of our experience and choose perspective in the coded 
> form of space-time curvatures in the substrate in which they are located. 
> These space-time curvatures arise from the mass distribution in the 
> biomolecules involved, such as tubulin in microtubules, and can be described 
> by the respective metric tensor field. We could imagine this coding of qualia 
> by space-time curvatures, much as meanings are coded for by letters, 
> sentences, paragraphs. Then all aspects and elements of the total of our 
> experiences and choices at a certain moment can be considered to be made up 
> of both elementary and compound Platonic ideas or forms. As a result, the 
> Platonic ideas are not only limited to mathematical ideas such as point, 
> line, circle, number or to ideas like beauty, courage, love, etc.,but are 
> applied very generally and generously to all senses, thoughts, feelings, as 
> well as to all aspects of choices, decisions, plans, visions. The primitives 
> of these experiences etc. (e.g. this color green, this sound on the piano, 
> this artistic feeling), these elementals are used as letters in words to 
> build up the sentences and paragraphs of the total of our experiences and 
> choices. Because they together form the space-time geometry selected in an 
> Orch OR, they must be coded by fundamental space-time geometry letters, 
> phrases etc.
> 
> 
> Crazy.

Yes.

Bruno



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