Hadn’t really thought of it that way before. I’ve considered the possibility of an exterior source before but not that it might have something to do with sleep.
These days I’m more leaning to consciousness being the result of some convergence of our neural architecture.
It’s like asking the question of, “where’s the user environment of a computer?”
Well, it’s in the RAM… Except it’s also streaming through the CPU, oh also it’s on the monitor but that isn’t what it actually looks like, however it actually originates from the SSD.
None of these individual components matter in a truly meaningful way without all of them. It is the same with the brain, take out any part of it and effectiveness is diminished or outright bricked.
The disturbing part of this idea is that once humans create a computer similar enough to our own brain, it will just inherently be conscious. “Organic” or not.
It’s so interesting to me ginormous mysteries we kind of just navigate through every day. How other people find them not interesting at all. How we could speculate forever and maybe the real answer is actually crazier then the speculation. I dont know.
What kind of crack were you smoking in the shower?
Butt crack
You can just stop this thought after the 1st if
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What does that even mean? Consciousness is somewhere in our nervous system. It’s not transmitted from some otherworldly place or something
Check out the theory of a noosphere. I think that might be what OP could be referring to. There is a theory that this supposed layer of information is always interacting with us on a quantum level and ideas can just come from the universe itself, or something like that… I’ve read about it once a while back and just thought it was kind of a cool sci-fi concept.
It’s also the basis for the plot in the Stalker games.
Thats amazing! Tell me, where in the nervous system does it reside?!
I already did: somewhere. I guess it’s some kind of emergence, you know the saying “the whole is more than the sum of its parts”
That’s a theory, no?
And what’s your “theory”?
The alternative is mind-body dualism, and it certainly hasn’t been proven one way or the other.
I don’t have any particularly unique theory.
Me, personally, don’t subscribe to any theory other then maybe, I am thinking, so I exist.
And what are you implying in the post?
I’m doing this thing called a thought experiment. It’s really fun. Try it sometime.
Oh you may think you’re thinking, but can you prove you’re not a Boltzmann brain?
Transmitted from where though and by whom?
By ourselves. From somewhere we don’t want to be?
If I’m sending my consciousness to escape somewhere, why the fuck would I choose to end up here?
Imagine how bad the other place is. Or maybe it’s like severance and once they build a utopia they will upload their full consciousness.
