Sunday, May 15, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
April 8, 2011
As suggested by Wrenj, here's what we've distilled:
- Claims of OBE/NDE experiences are abundant.
- These and other experiences, indicate the existence of other sources of and bridges for data to the human being, apart from purely biological structures.
- These claims need investigating.
- The question is how?
- Claims of OBE/NDE experiences are abundant.
- These and other experiences, indicate the existence of other sources of and bridges for data to the human being, apart from purely biological structures.
- These claims need investigating.
- The question is how?
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Greetings and definitions
Welcome to my first blog. As the title suggests, this is where I'd like to bring people together to attempt to define our consciousness, to eventually facilitate its isolation and manipulation, with the ultimate goal of human integration into the Singularity when the technology permits. Essentially, to figure out how to interface ourselves with silicon.
I would hope at this step in our evolution that incursions by the religious, superstitious, and delusional will be minimal if not entirely absent. Posts that try to reestablish the dark ages will be deleted.
My history has run the gamut of religious "faith", to outright hardcore atheism. When my best friend had an OBE/NDE (out of body experience/near death experience) several years ago on the operating table, I began to consider the body of evidence presented by that phenomenon. I keep an open mind regarding the possibility that we have a "soul" or "spirit" that survives outside our physiology but for the sake of this blog I would hope we can explore all scientific possibilities for the dynamics of our awareness or consciousness. If we are "spirit" based, then how exactly does that work? Transdimensional quantum energies? The closest thing we have to evidence are the stories of the NDE'ers and perhaps looking at how consciousness fails i.e. alzheimers or trauma victims.
I would also like to suggest the possibility that our consciousness is exclusively physical. Think about this for a moment. Really ask yourself if you could be nothing more than a collection of neurons. If this is the case, then integration into silicon will be nothing more than "becoming aware" of it after it's been interfaced to your brain. To wit, after "software" will be "aware". To challenge this, why do we not see consciousness developing in computers already? Mice have consciousnesses and our computers are as capable as mouse brains are they not? So then, is it a matter of programming? My computer doesn't have consciousness because nobody programmed it for such?
I can't help but be excited for the possibilities at this stage because although we don't have all the answers, we're asking the right questions to get us there.
I would hope at this step in our evolution that incursions by the religious, superstitious, and delusional will be minimal if not entirely absent. Posts that try to reestablish the dark ages will be deleted.
My history has run the gamut of religious "faith", to outright hardcore atheism. When my best friend had an OBE/NDE (out of body experience/near death experience) several years ago on the operating table, I began to consider the body of evidence presented by that phenomenon. I keep an open mind regarding the possibility that we have a "soul" or "spirit" that survives outside our physiology but for the sake of this blog I would hope we can explore all scientific possibilities for the dynamics of our awareness or consciousness. If we are "spirit" based, then how exactly does that work? Transdimensional quantum energies? The closest thing we have to evidence are the stories of the NDE'ers and perhaps looking at how consciousness fails i.e. alzheimers or trauma victims.
I would also like to suggest the possibility that our consciousness is exclusively physical. Think about this for a moment. Really ask yourself if you could be nothing more than a collection of neurons. If this is the case, then integration into silicon will be nothing more than "becoming aware" of it after it's been interfaced to your brain. To wit, after "software" will be "aware". To challenge this, why do we not see consciousness developing in computers already? Mice have consciousnesses and our computers are as capable as mouse brains are they not? So then, is it a matter of programming? My computer doesn't have consciousness because nobody programmed it for such?
I can't help but be excited for the possibilities at this stage because although we don't have all the answers, we're asking the right questions to get us there.
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