I know how I see I know not why I see The machine does it feel? The mind is it real? Are we food rearranged? A machine in the flesh? I know how I feel I know not why that is
This one makes me think of Descartes, who discarded everything he had learned to determine what was real. His answer: I think, therefore I am. That doesn't answer the question being asked here, though. Math is a way to measure the physical world. I believe consciousness goes beyond that world.
There's a physicist (I forget his name at the moment) who said something similar very recently... ".. read moreThere's a physicist (I forget his name at the moment) who said something similar very recently... "our brains are the most beautifully complex space-time patterns in our entire known universe... it's not the particles, it's the patterns." Basically, thought is an emergent property of an incredibly unique and unlikely arrangement of incredibly complex bio chemistry that really shouldn't exist without itself. He stops short of bringing other dimensions into but that's ultimately where the theories generally take you these days. At the end of the day every intellectual field runs into unanswerable (for now) questions. I think people would be suprised at how many of these guys don't rule out religion and such. It's not the most irrational or bizarre explanation out there.
4 Years Ago
The thing about religion is not to take it literally, but symbolically.
4 Years Ago
Agreed. Interestingly, that's exactly how I take the value of both infinity and absolute zero. Lit.. read moreAgreed. Interestingly, that's exactly how I take the value of both infinity and absolute zero. Literally proving them would disprove them conceptually.
Do you just relate everything to mathematics... It's so nice to read these.😊 I am loving these little mathematical poems.
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4 Years Ago
Not all the time. But it helps me to understand math and science by writing poems about, it makes i.. read moreNot all the time. But it helps me to understand math and science by writing poems about, it makes it easier to translate the concepts defining the natural world into a language I can readily understand. And each concept I intimately figure out always leads to a new one which leads to a new one until you get to the paradox's and unanswerable stuff which is both really cool and really frustrating.
This one makes me think of Descartes, who discarded everything he had learned to determine what was real. His answer: I think, therefore I am. That doesn't answer the question being asked here, though. Math is a way to measure the physical world. I believe consciousness goes beyond that world.
There's a physicist (I forget his name at the moment) who said something similar very recently... ".. read moreThere's a physicist (I forget his name at the moment) who said something similar very recently... "our brains are the most beautifully complex space-time patterns in our entire known universe... it's not the particles, it's the patterns." Basically, thought is an emergent property of an incredibly unique and unlikely arrangement of incredibly complex bio chemistry that really shouldn't exist without itself. He stops short of bringing other dimensions into but that's ultimately where the theories generally take you these days. At the end of the day every intellectual field runs into unanswerable (for now) questions. I think people would be suprised at how many of these guys don't rule out religion and such. It's not the most irrational or bizarre explanation out there.
4 Years Ago
The thing about religion is not to take it literally, but symbolically.
4 Years Ago
Agreed. Interestingly, that's exactly how I take the value of both infinity and absolute zero. Lit.. read moreAgreed. Interestingly, that's exactly how I take the value of both infinity and absolute zero. Literally proving them would disprove them conceptually.