Aren’t the different roles I play with the other people in my life part of the real ‘me’. Arent I changed by each interaction with others — Joshs

If you feel that the roles are you then yes.

Turing patterns are fascinating. What is the source of self organization - that is the 64billion dollar question - now billions due to inflation. :lol: — Pop

Source: initial configurations.

While it is a little hard for me to understand how one could be anything else, — Joshs

Most people play a role. Of course you are always your body and brain and your surrounding. There is ine physical you. That goes without saying. Losing the role playing lets the real you come out.

I remember being told as a teenager that we need to lose ourselves to find ourselves — Jack Cummins

If you just stay yourself there is nothing to loose or to be found. If you were somebody else first, then yes.

Can consciousness and self-organization rightly be called a theory? It seems a bit slender to me. — Tom Storm

It is. Offers ziltch to the discussion about art.

It's a fact that the vaccines are effective for only 8 months. Pays cash!

By the way. I see youre a math guy. Whats the difference between a function and a distribution?

It's the quantum version of a correlation. That means that two or more parts of a quantum system have correlated properties. What's strange about it is that the correlation is indeterminate until a measurement is made, after which the correlation is revealed.

The hidden variable approach says no indeterminacy exists. Pure chance is unreal. Chance is deterministic. Like quantum fields are.