Is Everyone Conscious in the Same Way? | Simon Roper - eviltoast
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    4 months ago

    That’s consciousness.

    Yeah. But we don’t know how it’s happening.

    And it IS universal

    No, it’s not.

    Your observer is always neutrally observing.

    Nope. No one is consciousness forever.

    That’s a pretty basic one

    Which the consciousness just observes.

    Ok.

    Now, I know you didn’t mean to, but you may have just said something that’s correct, and I’m almost certain you did so unintentionally.

    But over the very very short amount of time we’ve been looking I to this, yes there is a theory that what people think of a consciousness is not actually driving the bus. It’s a bored kid in the backseat daydreaming about why what they see out the back window is what’s outside.

    The kid has no control over what they see. They’re not driving the bus or have any influenece over what they see out that window.

    But the theory came about because we couldn’t measure the speed of thought back in like the 80s, maybe 70s.

    When we could measure faster, it looked like we had been wrong.

    Then even later we took that back and said it could be possible that that multiple different things in our environment happen different ways, then an incredibly small amount of time later that quantum wave collapse (happening millions or billions time a second) collapses those different options into a “one true timeline”.

    And if that is what’s going (literally uncountable, billions and billions time a second) then maybe we really are just the kid in the back of the bus pretending we’re flying over a landscape with no control over where we’re going.

    What’s really calling the shots on what we do isnt just “a Busdriver” either, if it’s not our consciousness running things, it’s a whole bunch of different parts of our bodies that have neurons, some of which are in the brain and some aren’t.

    I really really don’t think that’s what you’re trying to say, but you did touch on something that could be possible.

    Because again, we do t know and in all likelihood even if humanity figures it out some day, it’ll be generations from now at best