Science of Consciousness
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Email the author Norman Stubbs at nstubbs@hawaii.rr.com
ABSTRACTS
Abstract:
Experiences are physical properties of certain brain states.
These brain states are given forms representing the external world by
information processing in our brains. The
model of the world thus created is the conscious world of our experience.
It is a Map used to compute navigation for our organisms.
The contextual relationships within the model give meaning to its various
images. It is the intent of this
paper to make it clear that experiences (qualia and sensorial consciousness) are
properties of physical brain states and to show how things are given appearance
and meaning.
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10 printed pages, 3639 words, 40kb
4.
The Nature of Consciousness
Abstract:
The world’s physical aspect (what-it-is-like to be some thing) eludes us
completely and always will because of the what it means to know and to be a
‘self’ that knows. Scientists
speak of sensorial experience (sights, sounds, tastes, smells, feelings) as not
having a known place in physics, as physics is currently understood. The reason that scientists are frustrated by not being able
to decipher what experience is, is that they
are oblivious to the fact that they do not know what it is to be physical.
It is an error in their perspective. Experience
is physical and knowledge of experience is intangible.
Then how do we know of experience? This
problem is explained and the solution suggested.
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9 printed pages, 3589 words, 40kb
Abstract:
The effort here will be to build the portrait of our conscious experience
by explaining the intangible mechanics affecting experiential brain states.
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9 printed pages, 3840 words, 40kb
‘Self’
2.
Discovering Your ‘Self’
Abstract:
That the ‘self’ is really a mystery is revealed.
The ‘self’ is not the organism and it is not physical.
It is an intangible emergent property of information processing.
It mediates the response of the organism to stimulation from the
organism’s environment and thus represents itself as the agent of the
organism.
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12 printed pages, 4754 words, 53kb
6.
Self: From Action Plan to Person
Abstract:
The fundamental characteristic of the thinking mind is its ability to
formulate an action plan. It is the virtual processing relationship of
subject/action/object of action that creates the function of the action plan. I
will show how the 'self’ is an extension of this function.
The development begins with the action pattern, which evolves into an
action plan by the volitional separation of effecter muscles and efferent
neurons from stand-ins representing them. This
develops into the reasoning intellect which eventually mistakes itself for the
generic subject of its organism’s action plans.
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9 printed pages, 3351 words, 39kb
Abstract:
The division of the world into ‘self’ and not self creates the
dynamic psychodrama of our experience as persons involved with life.
An explanation of the way that we experience the world as individuals is
woven from the fabric of all the explanations in the papers that have gone
before.
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Intangible
Affecters
Abstract:
Functions, the specificity of dynamic relationships between things, are
co-affecters with physical nature of events.
Functions, as such, are intangible and therefore intangible affecters.
Intangible affecters do not exist in the material world or for that
matter in any world but their effects evidence their existence.
It is a new and difficult concept but essential for understanding complex
organizations such as consciousness.
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17 printed pages, 6707 words, 59kb
5.
Functions as They Relate to Physics
Abstract:
In this paper I will demonstrate
that physics is inadequate to explain physical events, that determinism is a
false idea, how free will is possible and how intangibles affect physical
events. The course of explanation
will begin within the contemporary scientific perspective and move toward
revealing its structure. It then
proceeds to dissect our perspectives to reveal where they have erred in
understanding events. The interface
of intangible affecters with the physical world is explained.
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18 printed pages, 7268 words, 63kb
Nature’s
Craft Behind the Experience of Our Lives
Abstract:
I want to consider the complexities of our experience in the Universe,
break out the principles of how it works and explain why we experience our lives
the way that we do. To do this, I
will divide this project into the three subjects of function, consciousness and
‘self’. Here, under function, I
will derive the principles of the intangible functions behind thought and mind.
Under consciousness I will
explain our experience in terms of intangible functions. Finally, I will
explain the intangible functions behind the agency of ‘self’.
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19 printed pages, 7699 words, 66kb