Panpsychism is the only theory of consciousness that even remotely makes sense

[Magical Apple]

Qualia is likely a universal property of energy and matter just like information. My theory is that when a system is ordered enough an experience of a subjective individual identity emerges. To make an analogy imagine a word generated by pixels. Each pixel carries information but the true meaning of the word only arises at visual resolution. I think the difference between a person and a rock isn't that the rock doesn't experience anything its just that its experience is so one-dimensional its pretty much irrelevant. Imagine a bunch of pixels turned on and off randomly. It carries information but this information has no subjective meaning.

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Qualia is likely a universal property of energy and matter just like information. My theory is that when a system is ordered enough an experience of a subjective individual identity emerges. To make an analogy imagine a word generated by pixels. Each pixel carries information but the true meaning of the word only arises at visual resolution. I think the difference between a person and a rock isn't that the rock doesn't experience anything its just that its experience is so one-dimensional its pretty much irrelevant. Imagine a bunch of pixels turned on and off randomly. It carries information but this information has no subjective meaning.

@App Maker @NuclearBrainReturns

yeah if we have conflicts of processing different things then obviously nothing will look the same to either of us. we need panpsychism to determine the objective reality that there is!

if two people have a strong distinction between something then it becomes useless to even think about that scenario any more unless it can reach rational stability for some things to be accepted by both sides.

also as for the rock and everything around us that is inanimate things that dont move hold less influence on the structure of our reality. things that move have more influence and more returns for things then something that doesnt interact with its reality!

 

[Magical Apple]

yeah if we have conflicts of processing different things then obviously nothing will look the same to either of us. we need panpsychism to determine the objective reality that there is!

if two people have a strong distinction between something then it becomes useless to even think about that scenario any more unless it can reach rational stability for some things to be accepted by both sides.

also as for the rock and everything around us that is inanimate things that dont move hold less influence on the structure of our reality. things that move have more influence and more returns for things then something that doesnt interact with its reality!

Well rocks carry information but that information has no complex subjective meaning. I think consciousness works the same. The consciousness of a rock is indistinguishable from the background consciousness of the outside universe.

Another important part of my theory of consciousness is that individual qualia have a specific resolution in which it emerges. You are not conscious of the cellular processes inside your brain, only your thoughts. What I think this means is that it is possible to recreate the same consciousness with a different method as long as that method causes the same individuality to emerge at the same resolution.

To make an analogy imagine writing a word twice, one time with square pixels on a screen and the other time with lines on paper. Both words have the same subjective meaning even though they are created with different mediums.