Sciopartum, the book
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… It’s a profound moment in the life of any great thinker, when we are violently awakened to the massive, seemingly insurmountable chasm between the immutable physical laws of the world, and the qualities of our conscious perception. The sudden and shocking understanding that the world that we know is constructed in our minds, and…
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… One of the challenges that consciousness presents to emergent systems is that we seem to have emergent properties that are ontologically fundamental – in other words they are not simply useful abstractions but real things in themselves. The boundary of our consciousness is a perfect example. The qualia that we experience first hand… the…
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Tracing back to the likes of Descartes and earlier, philosophers and scientists have spent centuries thinking about and debating The Mind-Body Problem. And though the problem is articulated in different ways the essence of the question is how consciousness relates to the physical body: where in the body does it exist or arise from? How…
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In this chapter we discuss Sciops, a novel mathemetical theory of consciousness. In doing so we begin to solve the hard problem, the binding problem, and the boundary problem
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What if our experiences and understanding of space and time arise not from physics but consciousness? How can the logic of neural networks explain this from first principles? In this chapter we define the logic of space and time