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Ok ... Devise a scheme where the brain is closer to directly contacting "what is" than it already is.
Hm, nothing comes to mind. All the sense organs are already on the head, as close to the brain as possible. I suppose its possible the "wiring" between the brain and sense organs could be more efficient, but ive never read/heard that.Ok ... Devise a scheme where the brain is closer to directly contacting "what is" than it already is.
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I have no idea."we know that what's-out-there is unlike our experience/perception of what's-out-there." beyond what could be biologically sensed, all possible biological experience/peception or inferred from biological senses ... what else is there about "what's-out-there" ... what is its true nature that is unlike our experience/perception of what's out there?
I have no idea, but whatever is "out there" is what we—conscious, experiential selves—are made of.
I have no idea.
I think we can make some inferences about its qualities based on our experiences, both phenomenologically and scientifically/physically.so you'd have no idea about finding out, either?
Based on the way we understand human observation/perception, no."we know that what's-out-there is unlike our experience/perception of what's-out-there."
- is this true for any possible observer of WOT? Or could there be some type of being for which WOTysiWOTyg?
There is no entity that perceives.I think we can make some inferences about its qualities based on our experiences, both phenomenologically and scientifically/physically.
I also think mathematics and philosophy can give us models of what it may be like.
The assumption by many seems to be that what-is must be physical and determined, so when phenomena like quantum weirdness are encountered and the hard problem, these individuals will continue to search for simple cause-effect mechanisms to explain these phenomena. It's not a bad approach as it's led to much scientific progress. And just about every time the approach has been doubted, physical, mechanistic solutions have found.
So mechanistic solutions will continue to be sought and/or assumed for better or worse.
Based on the way we understand human observation/perception, no.
However, there may exist entities that do not "perceive" what-is in the same manner that we do.
We know consciousness by way of being consciousness. But we still lack a basic understanding of its origin/nature and how it relates to the physical world we perceive.
I think we can make some inferences about its qualities based on our experiences, both phenomenologically and scientifically/physically.
I also think mathematics and philosophy can give us models of what it may be like.
The assumption by many seems to be that what-is must be physical and determined, so when phenomena like quantum weirdness are encountered and the hard problem, these individuals will continue to search for simple cause-effect mechanisms to explain these phenomena. It's not a bad approach as it's led to much scientific progress. And just about every time the approach has been doubted, physical, mechanistic solutions have found.
So mechanistic solutions will continue to be sought and/or assumed for better or worse.
Based on the way we understand human observation/perception, no.
However, there may exist entities that do not "perceive" what-is in the same manner that we do.
We know consciousness by way of being consciousness. But we still lack a basic understanding of its origin/nature and how it relates to the physical world we perceive.
I think we can make some inferences about its qualities based on our experiences, both phenomenologically and scientifically/physically.
I also think mathematics and philosophy can give us models of what it may be like.
The assumption by many seems to be that what-is must be physical and determined, so when phenomena like quantum weirdness are encountered and the hard problem, these individuals will continue to search for simple cause-effect mechanisms to explain these phenomena. It's not a bad approach as it's led to much scientific progress. And just about every time the approach has been doubted, physical, mechanistic solutions have found.
So mechanistic solutions will continue to be sought and/or assumed for better or worse.
Based on the way we understand human observation/perception, no.
However, there may exist entities that do not "perceive" what-is in the same manner that we do.
We know consciousness by way of being consciousness. But we still lack a basic understanding of its origin/nature and how it relates to the physical world we perceive.
I need to add a clarification to my response below to the comment you {@Soupie} made here:
Your last sentence above opens the way to a potential meeting of our (your and my) minds in moving beyond the foregoing discussion of Hoffman's 'framework for a hypothesis'. So far it seems to me that Hoffman's model [and/or your interpretation of it] have tended to dismiss/erase the roles of physical evolution and developing affective experience in living beings along the road of evolution to our own experiential and expressive capacities, as Damasio recognizes those evolutionary developments in the lecture I linked above [and in the progress of his thinking as presented in his published books]. Damasio also claims in that lecture that awareness and affectivity as the bodily roots of consciousness in species of life goes even to the level of living cells, and seems potentially similar to what you suggest in the last sentence of your comment above:
"Consciousness doesn't supervene on the features of our perceptual system, it supervenes on processes that occur on a level below the features of the perceptual system."
Your own concept of those 'processes that occur . . . below the features of perception' seems to remain centered in the mechanics discernible in the quantum substrate. I can agree that interactive q processes do appear to influence the interactive orientation of the evolution and development of physical forces, systems, and attained structure constituting the physical universe as currently understood in physics and astrophysics. As I remember writing in one of the earlier 'parts' of this thread, quantum interaction might also play a germinal role at the level of life in instantiating the core autopoietic structure of interaction between living organisms and their physical environments, from which consciousness can be understood to evolve in 'lived experience' begun in primordial forms of awareness and affectivity. My objection to Hoffman's hypothesized 'interface' is that it leaves out any recognition of the actual and actualized experiences of evolving species' in their lived interface with the physical world in which they exist. In short, studying the evolution of these 'lived interfaces' enables us to comprehend consciousness as evolved out of the enabling provisions and affordances of nature itself. By contrast, the 'interface' proposed by Hoffman appears to originate in metaphysical speculations that somehow 'consciousness' pre-exists and constitutes a physical world that is not actual but instead an illusion generated in 'perception'.
]. Damasio also claims in that lecture that awareness and affectivity as the bodily roots of consciousness in species of life goes even to the level of living cells, and seems potentially similar to what you suggest in the last sentence of your comment above:
I think this line of thinking is fascinating and then looking even below that level, to more basic relationships that make these roots possible at the cellular level