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If consciousness is being transmitted to our bodies it must be harmful to us which is why we are required to sleep. (self.showerthoughts)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hadn't really thought of it that way before. I've considered the possibility of an exterior source before but not that it might have something to do with sleep.

These days I'm more leaning to consciousness being the result of some convergence of our neural architecture.

It's like asking the question of, "where's the user environment of a computer?"

Well, it's in the RAM... Except it's also streaming through the CPU, oh also it's on the monitor but that isn't what it actually looks like, however it actually originates from the SSD.

None of these individual components matter in a truly meaningful way without all of them. It is the same with the brain, take out any part of it and effectiveness is diminished or outright bricked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The disturbing part of this idea is that once humans create a computer similar enough to our own brain, it will just inherently be conscious. "Organic" or not.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 0 points 1 day ago

It's so interesting to me ginormous mysteries we kind of just navigate through every day. How other people find them not interesting at all. How we could speculate forever and maybe the real answer is actually crazier then the speculation. I dont know.

[–] Cort 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What kind of crack were you smoking in the shower?

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 9 points 3 days ago

Butt crack

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What does that even mean? Consciousness is somewhere in our nervous system. It's not transmitted from some otherworldly place or something

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Check out the theory of a noosphere. I think that might be what OP could be referring to. There is a theory that this supposed layer of information is always interacting with us on a quantum level and ideas can just come from the universe itself, or something like that... I've read about it once a while back and just thought it was kind of a cool sci-fi concept.

It's also the basis for the plot in the Stalker games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can just stop this thought after the 1st if

[–] slazer2au 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Transmitted from where though and by whom?

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

By ourselves. From somewhere we don't want to be?

[–] Rhynoplaz 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If I'm sending my consciousness to escape somewhere, why the fuck would I choose to end up here?

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Imagine how bad the other place is. Or maybe it's like severance and once they build a utopia they will upload their full consciousness.