Empty objects: they contain nothing! OK, this is self-defeating (language deficiency). But what about a "written page containing ideas, information, etc."? OK, this is a figure of speach.The content of the physical can be non-physical? — Raymond
Intelligence, it seems, doesn't require a brain. Proof? The universe is acting in ways that we would ascribe to a genius (re mathematical precision and sense) and we know the universe doesn't have a brain. That is to say, intelligence can exist sans a brain. Intelligence is nonphysical or thereabouts. — Agent Smith
we just need new tools that upgrade human or non-human (AI) senses as well as cognitive capacities — Josh Alfred
What else besides brains are conscious/can become conscious? — RogueAI
You think it's perhaps probably responsible? What is a nonelectromagnetic field? A hidden variables field? — Raymond
My main idea is, that if nature evolves to produce these discontinuous realms, who is to say there isn't another beyond whatever is our current apex? — Pantagruel
I agree, there's a case to be made for conflating consciousness and self-consciousness. My main idea is, that if nature evolves to produce these discontinuous realms, who is to say there isn't another beyond whatever is our current apex? — Pantagruel
What are the brain mechanisms that contribute to the substance of percepts and perception? — Enrique
I might ask what are the evolutionary pressures and conditions that would needs be present t give rise to that will, and what does will look like to our animal relatives, whom also not only share a brain with almost identical processes of operation, but are made of almost identical elements and materials? — Garrett Travers
If this theory I outlined in the OP proves accurate, the implications for how physiology, perception and thought evolved will certainly be interesting to investigate. I've got my own speculation but no definitive conclusions besides the fact that I think free will, within constraints of variable and conditional stringency of course, does exist in thousands upon thousands of species. — Enrique
Tell me from the perspective of your studies, as I also have mine and maybe we'll swap if there are discrepancies, is there any issue you take with either the current working definitions of 'will,' or my reformulated one. — Garrett Travers
I think your definition of free will corresponds to physiological degrees of freedom in general, and the standard definition of free will you reference aligns with reflective purpose. Both are accurate in context, but most wouldn't correlate degrees of freedom in general with will. — Enrique
Given the definitions I provided, what you know of the science; doesn't my describing it as "the sum total of all human action and thought," cover the varying degrees aspect? — Garrett Travers
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