Philosophical Speculations

I guess I’m curious what the end state of a universe might look like if it was informed about itself? When it is utterly informed about itself, there will be no further drive and therefore the universe will disapear. This state is probably tantamount to the heat death of the universe or to singular...

I'd say that MAL's telos is to know itself. Metacognition is one step on the way. It startet from utter unknowing and progesses to more and more self-knowlage. Like in the case of human evolution or in the case of the development of a single human being. We are part of the MAL and we are part of thi...

Hi Martin, I have not read the papers yet, but I im researching into emotions and I can give you my view on the topic. In my understanding of emotions, they are states of the living system (the inside of the markov blanket). The whole living system gets changed by an emotion, which includes the nerv...

Why do you presuppose that the world consists of things in the first place? And why do you presuppose that there was nothing before the Big Bang? I think you should revise your presuppositions. Things are a fiction of human cognition without ontic status and nothing by definition could not ever have...

Yes, j.joerg, DID is an extreme example, but we all have dissociated minds... I completely agree with all what you are saying. I just cannot see how this can be used as an argument for idealism. We do have associated minds just as much as dissociated. The recognition of a dissociated mental process...

Bernardo seems to rest his solution for the decomposition problem of idealism on the known phenomenon of dissociative identity disorder. This line of argument seems problematic to me: This mental condition only can develope, if extrem traumatizations occor in early childhood while the brain is still...

As BK says, even stuck in a sensory deprivation tank with amnesia, we would have endogenous Awareness. Rovelli is ignoring this, isn't he? BK is assuming this. He is not knowing or proofing this. After all, what you experience in a deprivation tank is the neural input of the by far biggest sensory ...

I could well imagine that talking of subject and object, of mind and matter, only makes sense in a relational framework and that a non-relational ontological primary (neither subject nor object and jet both at the same time) cannot be described, understood and made sense of in linguistic terms. An i...

Right, it's similar to simulation hypothesis where the simulation is indistinguishable from "reality" so you can not study the simulation code or the "boundary" interface as long as you are "within" the Matrix. But some physicists argue that we can still test whether w...

So the image of consciousness that we experience has no relationship what so ever with consciousness itself? How come then, that there are very specific and predictable changes in the experience of human consciousness when we manipulate the image of consciousness (brain) in very specific ways? Imag...