The Consciousness Conundrum

Not so long ago, people believed the world was always flat, earth was the center of the galaxy, marriage was only for a man and a woman, and that the gods created the universe. Nowadays, they are all things of the past. Science, mathematics and technology gave humans the tools to correct these false notions. Yet, there is one fundamental question that has never been rationally resolved by these tools and that is; Does Consciousness emanate from the brain?

Some medical scientists believe that consciousness arises from the brain. Without the brain, consciousness wont exist. Evidence after evidence shows that conscious comes from the brain as shown by the effects of anesthesia, drugs, brain damage, and comatose to name a few. However, there are other scientists who believe that consciousness doesn't come from the brain. Some believe it emits from a source as a em-signal just like the way a boy wirelessly control a drone. The source is the transmitter and humans are the receiver. Others believe that consciousness is a universal effect caused by the cosmos itself, or that it could be transferred into someone's memories by previous lives, or it stays and comes back intact unaffected by those who have been in near death or out of body experiences.

However, according to the Theory of Information Materialization, Consciousness doesn't emanates in the brain. The claim comes from one particular principle called the Codexation Dilemma. It states that " Man cannot think/visualize /sense something without associating/representing such thing with a physical object " (if a dog is not aware of itself(mirror test), then that dog is not conscious; to be conscious in IM there must be dualpairing). The claim is also supported by the following theories like Black Train Experiment, the Software Illusion, and the Scription Jump which all can be found in the book Originemology.

So, what is the codexation dilemma?

When man thinks, the subjects in his mind are always abstracts. If he thinks of an apple, the image of an apple in his mind is an abstract subject. He makes the apple REAL when he physically touch, see, taste a physical apple. The abstract idea of an apple becomes real when a physical object is present. Thus, to make something real, the abstract subject must become a physical object.

But which comes first, the abstract idea of the apple or the physical apple? Do humans think first and label next or vice-versa?

Take note that the apple is a physical object. It is a product of the inherent world, the physical universe, that came first before the human brain. However, the word apple is simply a *LABEL that represents the fruit. The word is an identifier which can be associated with a certain physical object. The object apple can also be labelled with other names. It can be named orange, or lettuce, or frog, or any other words. As long the name is accepted by the majority, it is then accepted by the society. This is how humans rule the Laws of the Land, the Majority Pulse Effect.

Squiggles

Now, if a person thinks of the letter K and he writes it on a piece of paper, is the letter now a real object? If a person thinks of a squiggly line and scribble it on the sand, is the output of his thought now considered a physical reality? If humans have the power to create things that don't exist in the inherent world (all things Mother Nature has created) are these things considered real, true and void?

How do humans get such power to create? Where do their abstract imaginations come from? Is it from the brain or is it from nature? Which then created consciousness, is it the brain or is it mother nature?  If  humans can create abstracts, like the idea of consciousness, is the idea real, true or void without even presenting any solid physicality? Is consciousness real or still the product of abstractness?

How did consciousness gradually evolve during the evolution of man who was born with an empty mind? Is consciousness inborn? What it does? Why it evolved? Does it die when we die?  Is it the same with everyone? What is to be consciousness within oneself, being alive and having a mind? Are organs like heart, kidneys or internal inputs part of consciousness? How consciousness react with virtual reality?

Consciousness can be defined by the following levels of awareness:
1. Coma
2. Anesthesia
3. Deep sleep (REM)
4. Inhibitors (drugs)
5. Sleep walking
6. Epilepsy
7. Wakefulness

In philosophy, it is defined by:
1. The Easy Problem: how does the brain work?
2. The Hard Problem: how the activities in the brain accounts for ones personal experience?
3. The Real Problem: Is it the experience that change us or it is us that change the experience?
4: The True Problem: Is consciousness an illusion?

Hermann Von Helmholtz once said: The brain is a prediction machine. It thinks using the Best Guess method. Consciousness becomes vividly aware when it makes expectations.  However, its perception is believe to be a control hallucination.

Why can we trick our brain?
1. Optical illusions
2. Hit / Sit mental persistence
3. Pavlovian conditioning (reward system)
4. the xylophone analogy
5. philosophical zombies



Who is more conscious?
1. Humans
2. Elephants
3. Orangutans
4. Dogs
5. Worms
6. Beavers
7. Whales
8. Ants
9. Owls
10. Bees
11. Plants
12. Trees
13. Octopus
14. Corals
15. Spiders






What makes one more conscious?
1. Number of neurons
2. Particular region of the brain
3. Neural Activity
4. Evolutionary progression (staircase analogy)
5. Environmental layers of development
6. Caveman in the box Effect

The Xylophone Analogy:

The xylophone analogy was proposed by jlawsin to demonstrate the emergence of consciousness in the mind of a robot. A xylophone is a musical percussion which is made up of a set of colored bars of different lengths that are struck with mallets. Music is not anywhere on the bars. It doesn't exist on the instrument. But, when the mallets hits the bars accordingly, sound or music is produced. Consciousness does likewise. When the brain structure and the neurons dynamics are on its high level of firing activities, the sense of consciousness emerges.

Remember, being alive is not totally the same as having a mind. One who is alive doesn't mean one has a mind. A robot might have an electronic mind but it doesn't mean it is alive. However, if a robot has the ability to label things, then the robot has a mind and probably conscious as well. (jlawsin 1988 Biotronics)


* Label means to identify, associate, tag, mark, distinguish, define, represent a one to one correspondence.
** Carpe Diem - enjoy life while you have still the chance.

" I label x with y, therefore I am conscious." ~ joey lawsin

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Public Domain Notice: Copyright (c) 2000. All rights reserved. This article is part of a book entitled Biotronics: The Silver Species. Copies are welcome to be shared or distributed publicly as long proper citations are observed. Please cite as follows: Biotronics: The Conscious Robots, Joey Lawsin, 1988, USA.

"The subconsciousness of the body 
is more powerful than 
the consciousness of the mind." 
~ Joey Lawsin

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