Posted by alexandra_k on August 14, 2005, at 22:58:20
In reply to I wish I could live on the internet, posted by alexandra_k on August 14, 2005, at 22:44:55
Maybe everything is conscious
Every atom
But why stop there?
Why not every particle?
Every proton
electron.
But why stop there...5 (or is it 7) fields of force...
The strong nuclear force
The weak nuclear force
The electro-magnetic force
And the rest...
(I forget)
Take one field of force
And (roughly roughly) for convenience
Map points points cover the space with points
And at each point there is a degree of charge.
And each field is superimposed over the other fields
And thus is the ultimate nature of reality
(Though Chemist tells me there needs to be a place for gravity in this model)
But about there I get a little lost...
But maybe each charge...
Maybe each atom...
Is conscious.
Whats it like to be an atom?
Probably not like a hell of a lot.
It can't think about a hell of a lot.
It has no eyes to see with
No ears to hear with
No nervous system to feel with
No brain to remember with
To think with
Is there such a thing as consciousness without content?
A humming?
A buzzing?
What?Whats it like to be a rock.
Same saga...
Whats it like to be a brain?
Thinking...
Remembering...
Hook it up to a nervous system
Connect it to the world via senses
Sight
Smell
Touch
Taste
But how is it that our brain is COLLECTIVELY conscious?
How on earth???
That we can be conscious of something that is distributed in space...
How on earth???
And what happens when we die?I used to have a thought...
That maybe what happens is we first become paralysed.
But we still think and remember.
Then our eyes give out
Our ears
Our nerves begin to rot
And slowely...
In this manner...
We have less access to the current state of the world...
A brain cut off...
And it slowely disintegrates...
And our conscious access is reduced...
Till it is only aware of itself
Each particle cut off from each other
And only aware of itself...
And then a particle of brain
Becomes absorbed by a plant...
Maybe it becomes part of a plants consciousness
(whats it like to be a plant?)
And part of a plant is eaten by a bird
And maybe it gets to be part of a birds brain...
And a bird gets eaten by a person...
But the atoms never recombine exactly...
Or maybe...
They do...
After one hell of a long time...Maybe maybe...
Maybe thats the truth in reincarnation.
Hrm.
Cremate me please...
Just in case...But then once brain activity ceases...
Well, its probably okay.
Or at least one would hope.Cremate me please...
Just in case...
poster:alexandra_k
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