{"id":90772,"date":"2019-05-15T13:44:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T20:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-thesis-on-consciousness-and-experiential-realism-digital-philosophy-perspective"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:44:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T20:44:05","slug":"the-thesis-on-consciousness-and-experiential-realism-digital-philosophy-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-thesis-on-consciousness-and-experiential-realism-digital-philosophy-perspective","title":{"rendered":"The Thesis on Consciousness and Experiential Realism: Digital Philosophy Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-thesis-on-consciousness-and-experiential-realism-digital-philosophy-perspective4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A radically new view articulated now by a number of digital philosophers is that consciousness, quantum computational and non-local in nature, is resolutely computational, and yet, has some \u201cnon-computable\u201d properties. Consider this: English language has 26 letters and about 1 million words, so how many books could be possibly written in English? If you are to build a hypothetical computer containing all mass and energy of our Universe and ask it this question, the ultimate computer wouldn\u2019t be able to compute the exact number of all possible combinations of words into meaningful story-lines in billions of years! Another example of non-computability of combinatorics: if you are to be born and live your own life again and again in our Quantum Multiverse, you could live googolplex (10<sup>100<\/sup>) lives, but they all would be somewhat different \u2014 some of them drastically different from the life you\u2019re living right now, some only slightly \u2014 never quite the same, and timeline-indeterminate.<\/p>\n<p>Another kind of non-computability is akin to fuzzy logic but based on pattern recognition. Deeper understanding refers to a situation when a conscious agent gets to perceive numerous patterns in complex environments and analyze that complexity from the multitude of perspectives. That is beautifully encapsulated by Isaiah Berlin\u2019s quote: \u201cTo understand is to perceive patterns.\u201d The ability to recognize patterns in chaos is not straightforwardly algorithmic but rather meta-algorithmic and yet, I\u2019d argue, deeply computational. The types of non-computability that I just described may somehow relate to the non-computable element of quantum consciousness to which Penrose refers in his work.<\/p>\n<p><a><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-thesis-on-consciousness-and-experiential-realism-digital-philosophy-perspective5.jpg\" alt=\"Picture\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecstadelic.net\/top-stories\/the-thesis-on-consciousness-and-experiential-realism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A radically new view articulated now by a number of digital philosophers is that consciousness, quantum computational and non-local in nature, is resolutely computational, and yet, has some \u201cnon-computable\u201d properties. Consider this: English language has 26 letters and about 1 million words, so how many books could be possibly written in English? If you are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1523,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-computing","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90772","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\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}