You look at a rock. It is grey, inert, silent. It has been sitting in the same spot for perhaps thousands of years, doing nothing, feeling nothing, being nothing. This is the assumption. The rock is a thing. You are a person. The difference is consciousness. But what if the assumption is wrong? What if […]
The Soul of Stones: Panpsychism and the Consciousness of Everything Read Post »
Faced with the Hard Problem of Consciousness—the chasm between objective brain processes and subjective experience—science grows desperate. It cannot locate the theater of the mind within the wetware of the brain. So, it does what human inquiry has always done when confronted with an insoluble mystery: it externalizes it. It proposes that consciousness is not an
Protoconsciousness: The Ghost We Pretend to See in the Quantum Machine Read Post »
We are prisoners of our perspective. We live, move, and understand the world in three spatial dimensions: length, width, and height. Our senses are exquisitely tuned to this reality. The very structure of our brain is built to navigate it. But what lies outside the prison walls? What would it be like to perceive a
The View from the Fourth Dimension: How Would a Hyperbeing Perceive Our World? Read Post »
We live in an age of infinite information. We carry libraries in our pockets, access to the collective knowledge of our species a mere thumb-swipe away. We are surrounded by a perpetual, groaning buffet of facts, opinions, and data. And yet, we are starving. Not from a lack of consumption, but from a refusal to
The Hunger Games of the Mind Read Post »
