We don't have a universally accepted theory of emotions. What they are has been interpreted in various ways. I see them as a force like quality that we feel - this feeling provides impetus to self organize. In my understanding consciousness = self organization. — Pop
The thing that is integrated is information. This leads to an experiment being performed, this creates more information that is integrated, which leads to more experiments, and so on. — Pop
To "begin" it is only necessary to create movement — MondoR
There is no information until there is the first movement and observation (of itself). — MondoR
This is incorrect. You need a cause for the first movement, and the only one at your disposal is integrated information — Pop
Is something coming from nothing any more absurd than something existing forever? — Down The Rabbit Hole
How can we explain the existence and development of life at all? — Jack Cummins
I think that the nature of information is extremely interesting, but one aspect of this which I have been aware of related to it during to it the idea of noise, as discussed in a recent book by Daniel Kahneman et al, called, 'Noise'. I have only read about it and looked at the book casually in a bookshop, but it does indicate that our understanding of life is within a background of general noise, often as a form of hindrance. — Jack Cummins
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— Pop
Hypostatization extraordinaire? — jorndoe
Isnt organization anticipative? And if so, doesn’t that make it intentionally oriented?
Therex are mathematical definitions of information , like Shannon’s. Is that what you have in mind in your use of the word? — Joshs
The heroics of order overcoming disorder continue on, through record droughts and extreme heat domes… — PoeticUniverse
forever — Philosophim
information — Pop
How long did the "Vault of Everything" take to make? — Pop
I think your animated work is the strongest — Pop
Because we have no access to absolutes, we must develop a relativistic understanding. :up: How fortunate this coincides with the minimum condition necessary for a state of integrated information ( consciousness ) - the relating of one thing to another,. — Pop
The quest is ended. — PoeticUniverse
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