{"id":29200,"date":"2016-08-22T05:40:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T12:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/like-liked-unlikea-new-approach-to-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-a-quasicrystalline-language-of-primitive-units-of-consciousness-in-quantized-spacetimelike"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:55:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:55:18","slug":"like-liked-unlikea-new-approach-to-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-a-quasicrystalline-language-of-primitive-units-of-consciousness-in-quantized-spacetimelike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/like-liked-unlikea-new-approach-to-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-a-quasicrystalline-language-of-primitive-units-of-consciousness-in-quantized-spacetimelike","title":{"rendered":"Like Liked UnlikeA New Approach To the Hard Problem of Consciousness: A Quasicrystalline Language of \u201cPrimitive Units of Consciousness\u201d In Quantized SpacetimeLike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/like-liked-unlikea-new-approach-to-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-a-quasicrystalline-language-of-primitive-units-of-consciousness-in-quantized-spacetimelike.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hard problem of consciousness must be approached through the ontological lens of 20th century physics, which tells us that reality is information theoretic and quantized at the level of Planck scale spacetime. Through careful deduction, it becomes clear that information cannot exist without consciousness \u2013 the awareness of things. And to be aware is to hold the meaning of relationships of objects within consciousness \u2013 perceiving abstract objects, while enjoying degrees of freedom within the structuring of those relationships. This defines consciousness as language \u2013 a set of objects and an ordering scheme with degrees of freedom used for expressing meaning. And since even information at the Planck scale cannot exist without consciousness, we propose an entity called a \u201cprimitive unit of consciousness\u201d, which acts as a mathematical operator in a quantized spacetime language. Quasicrystal mathematics based on E8 geometry seems to be a candidate for the language of reality, possessing several qualities corresponding to recent physical discoveries and various physically realistic unification models.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/new-approach-hard-problem-consciousness-language-primitive-klee-irwin\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/new-approach-hard-problem-con...klee-irwin<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hard problem of consciousness must be approached through the ontological lens of 20th century physics, which tells us that reality is information theoretic and quantized at the level of Planck scale spacetime. Through careful deduction, it becomes clear that information cannot exist without consciousness \u2013 the awareness of things. And to be aware is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60697,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29200\/revisions\/60697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}