[FRIAM] Self-Consciousness, experience and metaphysics

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Ugh. It's not a metaphor. It's a description of an "algorithm", a concrete procedure, taking in and pumping out data. A question is, though, whether this algorithm is reductive or not. It may well be that a characteristic of consciousness is that the dimensionality of the output is the same as the dimensionality of the input... the dimensions could be different, but the dimensionality the same. Dave might even argue that the dimensionality of the output is greater than that of the input. Some who work in open-ended evolution make analogous claims. If that's the case, it wouldn't be fusion so much as ... what? ... "refraction"? "splitting"?

On 7/25/24 09:38, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> I am having trouble with the fusion metaphor. I can think of two kinds of fusions that might be operating here: a bunch of stuff is pushed together at very high velocity, and there is a giant bang. Alternatively, a bunch of different substances Are heated to a high temperature and form a piece of slag. Is either these metaphors appropriate to your understanding? Or are you operating with a different one?

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