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To: cosmicforce who started this subject	11/26/2001 11:07:27 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) of 667

I found this article on consciousness interesting... cogprints.soton.ac.uk AMPLIFYING PHENOMENAL INFORMATION: TOWARD A FUNDAMENTAL THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS ABSTRACT: Since an organism eats other living things to survive, it must behave as if it values its own subjective experience more than that of the entities it consumes. Thus assessments about consciousness are inherently warped. This lends credibility to Chalmers’ double aspect theory of information, and suggests that the degree of consciousness is a function of the degree to which information is locally amplified. Autocatalytic closure may induce a phase transition in degree of amplification by trapping and integrating information. The effect may be magnified in humans through a second level of closure: distributed memories (attractors) are woven into a conceptual web through the emergence of abstractions (lower-dimensional attractors). Human consciousness is viewed as a temporally self-similar hyperstructure or sequence of phase relations which evolve and are evolved by this conceptual web. The final stages in the proposed transformation from proto-conscious to human conscious involve reflection, focusing, resonance, and interference.

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