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Is consciousness fundamental to the universe?
The argument of Hoffman and his colleagues centers on what Hoffman calls the Fitness Beats Truth Theorem, purported to be a mathematical theorem (game-theoretic if I recall) which states roughly
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Is consciousness fundamental to the universe?
The paper quotes several particle physicists saying "spacetime is doomed" or words to that effect. What they mean is that there probably is some kind of substructure to the spacetime ...
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Is consciousness fundamental to the universe?
Oh boy.
I skimmed the paper, kind of expecting to hate it, but I was pleasantly surprised. The Markov chain stuff is completely over my head, which is annoying as I find qualia a particularly ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
Who am I ?
I am a homo sapien.The current scientific understanding is that humans evolved from earlier hominids over millions of years through a process called natural selection. The common ancestor ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
You are your current Experience.
The body in that Experience can lose an arm but the Experience still occurs.
The body can sleep but there is Experience during sleep. The contents of Experience ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
I'm not going to add to the answers you already have. But you do ask for references, so I hope you find the following helpful:-
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Personal Identity
Wikipedia - ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
The I you are seeking is more synonymous with the deep sleep reference. That is to say, there is no 'I'. There is only an 'I' which can be found if you seek it using conceptual memories of past, ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
What is this 'I' that asks "what is this I?"
My background is in vision and image processing.
If you look at something, who or what sees it? You have detectors at the back of your eye that ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
You are the ultimate subject. Everything else is an object to this subject that this subject experiences or controls. Your body is the hardware and mind is the software, but neither is you. You can ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
Here is my organization of what is me, Perhaps this is also true for me.
"I", the deepest level of me that can be unit-fied is the true me. This thing is difficult to explain. I call ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
The question of "what am I" has no single canonical answer, as philosophy has not arrived at a single view. Both selfhood, and the mind-body problem, are open questions, under significant ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
There are four basic modes of philosophy, which can be found in all times and places. Some philosophers specialize in one mode, but many go across modes. Each mode has a different characteristic ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
tl;dr– There're a lot of different ways we could define a "you" that would be thinking the thoughts that you're thinking and feeling the feelings that you're feeling. Objectively speaking, ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
You can not be body because body suffers from diseases like cancer , coronavirus, AIDS , cataract , dengue ,diabetes etc. Body ages, grows old and becomes very weak. Body dies and becomes a corpse.
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
In Zen they see understanding the truths of the Buddha as focused by answering the Great Koan, 'Who am I?'. They say this cannot be answered for all time, we answer each moment the question fills us, ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
You are at least a part of your mind, the personality itself that's aware of its own existence (some call it "the soul", and consider it to be separate from the mind, but that doesn't really ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
When you decide to do something, you say "I want to do that." So is it your body that wants to do that?
When someone dies, normally doctors can transplant all parts of her body to someone ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
You are
ACCORDING TO :
law
A civilian.
society
Mainly your job.
politics
A vote.
your partner
Ask them.
psychology
A vulnerable human being, trying to cope with reality.
intellectually
Someone trying ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
Plessner argues that a person has three aspects:
their physical body (Körper)
their lived body (Leib), which is felt and can be acted with
their self, which is posited into nothingness and only ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
The best answer to this particular question must be one that one can discover for oneself. However ...
You are trying to get a canonical answer to this question. If the answer changes after a certain ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
You ask a fundamental question. A dualist approach assumes a soul that is separate from the body and may or may not be identical to the mind. A materialist approach assumes that there is only the body ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
Our capacity for self consciousness and language use provides us various descriptions of ourselves according to a naturalized epistemology (SEP).
Some will claim you are nothing more than your mind ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
Human beings normally experience themselves as a unit. This unit can be named a “person”, in order to not split at the beginning the whole into its parts.
Experiencing oneself is the first-person ...
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Who am I? Mind, body, mind and body or something else?
Well, the "I" you are referring to, is the intersection of perceptions and all things that you consider as "I". At the same time you co-create that "I", you build it up. ...
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