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by dangitnotagain 1064 days ago
In the “consciousness is the inflection of existential being” view, consciousness is massively coherent through coupling and entanglement, thus giving the illusion of a singular field (of which there are many going in and out of phase with each other.) this would work similarly to holography (instead of composite wave fronts, those entangled.)

The brain is very much an antenna, though not only an antenna. The Cosmic Serpent (book) does a good job speculating how this might work, using 2D crystalline DNA as “fractal antennas.” The brain stores it’s own information locally.

Consciousness is not computation (or intelligence). Consciousness is the carrier platform from which intelligent systems arise not the other way around.

The advantage of consciousness (other than the existential potential inflecting upon itself) is non-linear “computation”. As consciousness (through constructive and destructive interference) acts as a sieve (information is pushed into and pulled off of the “stack” by electro-chemical biotechnology.) a mechanism far more efficient than linear computation.

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Can we elaborate on non-linear computation. How is it different than what we can compute? Note that sensor fusion, which is a process similar to what you describe is a common (and increasingly more so) technique in tech, say in smartphones, drones and other semi/autonomous machines.
Well, there is a hypothesis that the quantum sieve is an analog rather than binary domain. Rather than spin characteristic, an entire amplitude wave front exists in there, we must find the technology to suss it out.

However this technology resolves itself, the single scope’s domain would be a virtual hyper-dimensional “sub-universe”. An echo chamber which simulates whatever constructive and destructive interference interacted upon it. These combine into “your universe”, and best guess behavioral response is activated.

The virtualization layer (through constructive hyper-dimensionality) would mean the information does not have to linearly propagate through every parsing and rendering necessary to functionally relate.

What might the resolution be for such a scope? Is one neuron enough, or do these couple and entangle, producing higher composite resolution?

As for “things” doing hyper-dimensionalization (or hyper-parameterization) , what is obvious is of (efficient) virtualization layers influencing their evolutions.

Whatever we’re doing is economical for our headspace.

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