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Re: Consciousness Explained - New book

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Edgar L. Owen wrote:
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> Consciousness is part of reality and must be covered in a true TOE even though physics completely ignores it. Thus physics itself can't possibly construct a true TOE.
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> Consciousness isn't a physical phenomenon and thus the universe it exists within can't be physical in the usual sense of consisting of material objects.
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> There are two steps in understanding consciousness.
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> 1. Thus the only solution to the problem of consciousness is to add something to the universe that is compatible with the existence of consciousness. There is only one thing this can possibly be. It must be the actively self-manifesting existence or reality of everything in the universe that science completely takes for granted and ignores.
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> But if things didn't have an actively self-manifesting existence they simply wouldn't exist, so they must have it.
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> We can call the actively self-manifesting existence of things their immanence. Immanence is an old idea that expressed the hidden presence of the divine in things but I use it completely absent any religious connotations.
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> 2. The second step is to understand how the brain's simulation of reality works to understand how consciousness appears within it.
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> Our simulation continually computes an internal information model of reality in which it encodes external objects and events as neural data representations of them. So far this all occurs at an unconscious level.
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> But there is a little subroutine in the simulation called the focus of attention routine that actively monitors representations in the main simulation. The action of this focus of attention subroutine generates data that representations are being focused on, that they are being experienced.
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> Thus what we call experiences are the data that representations of things are being focused on or experienced in the brain.
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> What we call consciousness is simply the immanence of the data of such experiences. Because of their immanence experiences become conscious.
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> Thus consciousness is a combination of the immanence of existence that all the data that makes up the computational universe has occurring in specialized brain structures encoding that experiences are occurring.
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> It's a very simple and straightforward explanation of consciousness, and it appears to be the only possible actual explanation.
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> This is all explained in detail in my book Consciousness Explained, It's True Nature Finally Revealed, available on Amazon under my name.
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> Edgar L. Owen



but consciousness has never been proven to...exist.

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Consciousness Explained - New book "Edgar L. Owen" <Edgar@edgarlowen.com> - 2017-07-15 08:07 -0700
  Consciousness Explained - New book "David (Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2017-07-15 08:26 -0700
    Re: Consciousness Explained - New book "Edgar L. Owen" <Edgar@edgarlowen.com> - 2017-07-15 10:58 -0700
  Consciousness Explained - New book "David (Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2017-07-15 08:28 -0700
  Re: Consciousness Explained - New book Garfield Dieter <igdle@rdlge.rf> - 2017-07-15 18:29 +0000
    Re: Consciousness Explained - New book "Edgar L. Owen" <Edgar@edgarlowen.com> - 2017-07-15 12:23 -0700
      Re: Consciousness Explained - New book Garfield Dieter <igdle@rdlge.rf> - 2017-07-15 19:55 +0000
        Re: Consciousness Explained - New book "Edgar L. Owen" <Edgar@edgarlowen.com> - 2017-07-15 14:48 -0700
          Re: Consciousness Explained - New book "David (Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2017-07-15 14:49 -0700
          Re: Consciousness Explained - New book Winfred Plumer <lewru@pulwr.cn> - 2017-07-17 15:37 +0000
  Consciousness Explained - New book "David (Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2017-07-15 15:43 -0700
  Re: Consciousness Explained - New book The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-15 15:48 -0700
  Re: Consciousness Explained - New book Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-07-16 19:51 -0500
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      Re: Consciousness Explained - New book Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-07-17 04:55 -0500
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