When spelled with an “E”, Enformation is a verb, referring to energy and processes. *** When spelled with an “I”, Information is a noun, referring to data & things. It becomes meaningful only when a sentient Self interprets it as such. In computer science though, Information is treated as meaningless, which makes its mathematical value more certain. *** For humans, Information has the semantic quality of aboutness, that we interpret as meaning. We know it exists ideally, only by detecting its effects in the real world. So, that meaningful mind-stuff exists in the limbo-land of statistics, producing effects on reality while having no sensory physical properties. *** Claude Shannon quantified Information not as useful ideas, but as a mathematical ratio between meaningful order (1) and meaningless disorder (0) between knowledge (1) and ignorance (0). Protoconsciousness theory posits “A primordial state of brain organization that is a building block for consciousness” (Hobson 2009) If you are interested, I can provide my Information-centric answers to your questions. That pre-BB beginning was essentially Mathematical ratios, but not yet Mental meanings. Some physicists & information theorists have concluded that Generic Information is the fundamental element of reality both Mind & Matter*3.īased on that understanding of creative evolving Information, I postulate that everything in the universe is a form of Information, but the scientific & philosophical kind of information is a recent development from a non-conscious (Big Bang) origin. I won't go into the details here, but basically I view human-style Consciousness as an evolutionary development from fundamental Information*2. In place of that short-sighted theory, I have developed my own notion of the origin of consciousness. Unfortunately, that kind of definition does not answer questions 2 & 3. What is the difference between consciousness and proto-consciousness? - EugenApparently, Penrose is merely postulating that primitive neural nets were not conscious, but evolved toward the kind of awareness that humans experience*1. How is proto-consciousness differentiated from matter?ģ. Penrose always says the Universe is not conscious, but that proto-consciousness is a fundamental property of it.
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