Consciousness could be a side effect of 'entropy', say researchers

TozBourne

@Lady_App_titude said:
Sorry, I refuse to use consciousness until they add Audiobus support.

+1
Gosh LadyA you crack me up every time I see a comment form you. Thanks, I needed this right now!!!

supadom

@MonzoPro said:
My best mate is suffering a rather nasty form of brain cancer at the moment. He's seen the scans, he says his brain is 'a f****** mess' with half of it either damaged by the cancer, or removed by surgeons to stop it pushing his eyes out.

Yet he is still the same bloke to talk to - same sense of humour, same personality, same frighteningly sharp intelligence. The loss if brain matter seems to be causing physical (loss of mobility), rather than mental issues.

Sorry to hear this Monzo.

It will depend on what part of the brain is affected. if I remember well cerebellum is mostly responsible for movement.

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@srcer said:
Talk about synchronicity. I was just thinking the other day about a couple articles I'd seen a while back relating entropy to intelligence and life itself.

http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/46
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/

The disturbing thing about the second one, from my reading, is that it implies that anthropogenic global warming may not really be unique to humans per se, but the inevitable result of life[^1] on the planet.

Yes. But the point is the planet doesn't care if there is life on it or not.
It's just a rock in space where random things happen.
It's these funny little creatures called humans that should care,
If we don't want to get down in history like the dinosaurs with no one to tell the story to.

srcer

@lala said:
Yes. But the point is the planet doesn't care if there is life on it or not.
It's just a rock in space where random things happen.
It's these funny little creatures called humans that should care,
If we don't want to get down in history like the dinosaurs with no one to tell the story to.

Yes, of course. A special kind of irony though if the making of our own demise, requiring us to be conscious enough to change course, is the natural result of us being, well, conscious. Perhaps some new form of life will thrive in the heat of the world humans wrought. Will it be musical? Will it still complain that FRUM doesn't have Audiobus and Link?

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@supadom said:

@MonzoPro said:
My best mate is suffering a rather nasty form of brain cancer at the moment. He's seen the scans, he says his brain is 'a f****** mess' with half of it either damaged by the cancer, or removed by surgeons to stop it pushing his eyes out.

Yet he is still the same bloke to talk to - same sense of humour, same personality, same frighteningly sharp intelligence. The loss if brain matter seems to be causing physical (loss of mobility), rather than mental issues.

Sorry to hear this Monzo.

It will depend on what part of the brain is affected. if I remember well cerebellum is mostly responsible for movement.

Thanks matey. Yeah, amazing how consciousness/memory/etc. is specific to one small part.