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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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The work in Sciops on emergent structures could be of great use to A) further deepen non-mathematical theories of consciousness by giving them a powerful mathematical framework to leverage and B) further refine mathematical theories of consciousness by giving them a more powerful metaphysical why behind their mathematical structures and equations. In this post we’ll…
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About the Author After studying neuroscience and instead of pursuing scientific research, I (Niko Ivanovic) founded a SAAS technology company immediately out of college. The company now has over 400 employees and has raised over $26M in funding (not that this is an accurate measure of success, but I’m not going to tell you our…