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I just finished viewing a very interesting recent discussion between four highly intelligent, well-informed and impeccably considerate individuals, including 2020 Nobel Laureate in Physics Sir Roger Penrose. As this discussion illustrates, at age 93 Sir Roger remains as sharp as anyone might ever hope to be.
The in-depth discussion explores relationships among notions of consciousness, free will, quantum physics and general relativity. If that strikes you as interesting, as it does me, my guess is you'll greatly enjoy viewing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nOtLj8UYCwHere's a Wikipedia link on Roger Penrose:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_PenroseTom
No. of Recommendations: 2
FWIW, here's my word-salad of the day ...
Environment is a collectively entangling quantum superposition
ubiquitously evoking ongoing experience.
Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose
suggests that quantum theory is rooted in the superposition
posited by Schoedinger’s wave collapse.
That’s very interesting.
Perception complexifies
as ubiquitously (self)identifying quantum superpositions
entangling via boundless organically evolving experience
manifesting as existence.
Collective entanglement
hosts local cognition of anything and everything,
including self-perception;
ever-emergent within the solicitations
of uniquely evolving environment.
Tom
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FWIW, here's my word salad from last evening, nicely anticipating my viewing today of the aforementioned "Consciousness and the Mystery of Existence" video. At least for the moment I've come to regard consciousness as awareness of organically evolving experience of existence, where awareness is most fundamental.
Present identity is a fluidly shifting perspective upon experience.
Its present direction and ongoing momentum
are organically preserved and cognitively propagated.
That’s how we ‘materialize’,
as whatever may be known is even now emergent
within its own erstwhile absence.
It's a circular affair,
as the boundless possibilities of interpretive experience
are ever emergent within infinite potential.
Simply stated, experience is a collective integration
of boundless more or less plausibly evolving perspectives.
We regard our individual perspectives as consciousness,
hosted by universal awareness.
Perception tolerates whatever may arise,
regardless of its inherent plausibility,
including all manner of phantasmagoria.
For better or worse, any such perspective
may influence experience in countless ways.
Thus is each of us ever challenged to live effectively,
whatever that may demand of present experience.
Tom
