Is Consciousness an Emergent Phenomenon?

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i don't know anything about consciousness at a detailed level myself, other than being an avid user of it. But i do know something about physics and the physical world, so i have gone on record and even written a paper trying to explain how whatever consciousness is. Right now, there's different levels of description, and there's a higher level where we talk about people and consciousness and so forth. So i'm unwittated on this that it's not to be used as some sort of elixir or magic, magic source, special source te That just re labels the mystery a. You don't just solve consciousness by replacing it with another mystery a. There is something intuitive about many systems

Those of us who think that that the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely known tend to also think that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon that must be compatible with those laws. To hold such a position in a principled way, it’s important to have a clear understanding of “emergence” and when it happens. Anil Seth is a leading researcher in the neuroscience of consciousness, who has also done foundational work (often in collaboration with Lionel Barnett) on what emergence means. We talk about information theory, entropy, and what they have to do with how things emerge.

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Anil Seth received his D.Phil in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex. He is currently a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at Sussex, as well as co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science. He has served as the president of the Psychology Section of the British Science Association, and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness. His new book is Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.

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