Read this article.
lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algor … om_inside/
Basically, this article aims to defeat erroneous labeling and meaning making/searching.
Does a tree fall in the forest? We need not answer the question, lets blame it on psychology. Badda bing, badda boom. Use Network 1 more. Boom.Problem solved. There is no meaning other than whats already there. A=A. Boom. Done. Badde bing, badda boom. Anything else is searching, meaning making, irrational and erroneous, badda bing, badda boom.
Its a bit like the buddhist notion of saying…“we don’t need to ask, all of our questions have already been answered, just be silent. Badda bing, badda boom. THeres nothing to be done. We are finished, man. Badda bing, badda boom.”
Actually, no. There is probably a spiritual reason and advantage of network 2 over network 1. Yeah, thats right, I said it, the meaning making network has an advantage. I believe there is a spiritual purpose to its shape. I believe it, and I, can fly.
You see, people with network 1 never bother to understand spiritual things, they are automatons, A=A, they see what it is, and they are done. There is no meaning making or erroneous connections. But what if their inability to question things, their inability to be erroneous, is actually lessening their understanding? I mean, if people were network 1’s, noone would ever formulate the problem of the tree in the forest. Problems would never be made, and thus, never solved, and people would have never made a website comparing the difference between network 1, and network 2. Essentially we’d all be unconscious, lethargic slugs, simply basking in enlightenment and keep saying that reality is merely reflected in us, Truth is ourselves, etc. never asking or gaining any understanding deeper than that.
So sure, keep telling me that I am part of my brain, and that is why I am conscious and ask questions, because I am part of a nueral network. Question that bugs my mind, is why I am I part of this neural network, and not someone elses neural network, and not some other random network? Why this brain? Of all the brains, I could be a fish at the bottom of the ocean. It is peculiar that I have the brains which is the most curious about it’s own selfawareness, or at least, one of the most curious brains, and not a fish at the bottom of the ocean brain.
So what I would like for you to do, is make an account at the Genius Forums, and ask them this question, “Why am I this brain, and not someone else’s brain?” Then ask. “Why does consciousness happen in the way that it does?”
I can’t do it because they banned my IP. Also, when you make an account, dont give it a girl moniker or avatar, they dont prefer girls over there.
Second thing I’d like to mention is, I have a counter theory to the seperationlessnessishness theory they promote. Its called “entanglement”. Now when they get into that mode of theres they just focus on the now, and then say those little idiots who make labels of things are deluded. In the now, there is no seperation of things.
But in entanglement theory, you look at the global timespan of interactions, and you find that “you are not the tree” because after 5 minutes and you walk away from the forest, the tree is no longer part of you. Therefore, you are not a tree, and it is safe to label trees as something distinct and seperate from you. However, for your conscious life you are part of your own body, therefore it is fairly probable that you are your own body, and not a tree. You just gotta look at the timeline. Mind blowing, I know. Rational. Concise. Intuitive. Trixie’s Entanglement theory is in, Kelly’s seperationlessnessishness is out.