tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post2898405937543377507..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: Cute and fuzzy....cockroaches?Anne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-57879546499529076792012-05-07T16:15:56.631-04:002012-05-07T16:15:56.631-04:00There is of course something major to be discovere...There is of course something major to be discovered. Dash it all, it won't be you or me who make it! It will be some smart-ass young person, coming out of nowhere, who didn't accept all our baloney, incremental puffed up claims of paradigm shifting discovery.<br /><br />Whether there are 'aura' like quantum phenomena to explain internal self-awareness, or something else: something now being blamed on multiple universes, or entanglement, or dark matter, something is not right.<br /><br />The idea of emergence of self-awareness from many factors interacting seems too simplistic and perhaps too much a case of physics-envy.<br /><br />I wonder whether there is anything truly probabilistic in fundamental causation and, if there is, if that doesn't point to basic flaws in the kinds of theories we are inventing.<br /><br />Of course the whole questions of what probability is, why mathematics 'is', and so on may be in the same realm of the ultra-beyond-us at the moment....Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-41704296592290308232012-05-07T15:59:24.122-04:002012-05-07T15:59:24.122-04:00Ulp! You mean that I, good vegetarian that I am, j...Ulp! You mean that I, good vegetarian that I am, just ate a bowl of split consciousness soup for lunch? Well, at least they weren't cockroaches!<br /><br />The more I read about emergent phenomena, the more I see a vast comprehension gap between reasonably well-established quantum phenomena and their equally well-documented physiological/sociological cousins some indefinite number of levels "up". Whoever makes some plausible scientific connections across that gap will certainly have my attention!Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.com