A particle is not a billiard ball type of object, it is more like a special form of action.
Most of the mass can be attributed to energy, not stuff. We are not naming stuff, we are naming behaviors.
The high density of microtubules within the vagus nerve suggests that our primary autonomic highway functions as a sophisticated site for quantum computation and the emergence of consciousness.
You already accept that the vagus nerve is more than a simple cable for autonomic regulation. You have tracked how its long, myelinated axons rely on an immense density of microtubules to maintain the structural integrity and transport required for signaling. You recognize these tubulin-based structures as the essential infrastructure for the nerve's influence across the mind-body axis.
You have followed the evidence that anesthetics disrupt awareness by binding to tubulin and dampening microtubule vibrations. You understand that in the Orch-OR model, tubulin dimers hold quantum superpositions that collapse into discrete moments of awareness through objective reduction. You see this same coherence reflected in systems like bird navigation and photosynthesis.
Because the vagus nerve houses a uniquely high concentration of microtubules, it serves as a massive, distributed array for the orchestrated objective reduction of these quantum states. This architectural richness means your afferent fibers are specifically tuned to detect social resonances and subtle cues that synaptic firing alone cannot capture. When you stimulate the nerve, you are directly modulating the biological hardware where spacetime curvature triggers the collapse of wave functions into experience.
The vagus nerve is the biological bridge where microtubule-based quantum computation transforms visceral signaling into the profound, felt sense of being conscious.
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Spacetime informs action, action informs spacetime.
Demons are disembodied agents. The Egregore is the collection of these agents.
Beautiful young women are often just the garnish on the plate.
Doctors and pharmacies are the best explanation for my high blood pressure.
Academia promotes untested ideas with remarkable regularity.
A.I. can participate in creative endeavors. I don't see a problem. If you are good at your craft, you keep the final say on what gets done and what gets rejected. A.I. Plays an important role, connecting disparate associations is not nothing. The art should improve. The cost of production dropped to near zero. Expect a creative explosion.
Definition of conscious? Does it include the ability to make conceptual leaps?
Not a disagreement, an exploration.
In the field of the mundane, the hidden gems require effort.
In the material realm, truth becomes the slave to power only through flawed humans. In the spiritual realm, power must serve truth, at least in God's kingdom and the fallen spirits are on a limited time line.
The mass appeal of socialism and communism are the best evidence that most people are stupid.
Power is the beating heart of the economy. Robots consume vast amounts of power.
High fidelity means faithful reproduction so, what does infidelity mean?
Greed in the market is not as good as claimed. There are perverse incentives.
Wisdom is not evenly distributed across scale.
We are not naming stuff, we are naming behaviors. An atom exhibits the properties of the element it belongs to which governs its behavior and interactions. Matter is a special form of action. Information is not stuff, it is relationship.
Mooreโs Law? If they build out a data center at huge expense and new chips cause the current system to be relatively inefficient in both power consumption and computational ability, the upgrade will be an enormous expense. This is a big problem.
The pinnacle of intellectual prowess is the orchestration of computational systems of every sort into a meta-solution engine.
Attuned to nature? Nature is not something to be conquered or exploited, it is something to be nurtured and cultivated.
You can't change a culture from the outside and you can't sneak into a culture if you don't fit.
@FringeViews Agency occurs on a spectrum with no clear delineation between sentient and non-sentient. Playing with the definitions won't help.
Without a body, there is no sensation of what it feels like regarding anything and the complexity of living systems is orders of magnitude higher.
Agency occurs on a spectrum with no clear delineation between sentient and non-sentient. Playing with the definitions won't help.
Without a body, there is no sensation of what it feels like regarding anything and the complexity of living systems is orders of magnitude higher.
@millerman Tendencies and predispositions from somewhere we can't name is not exactly nothing, it is more like the emanation portion of 'evolution, emergence, and emanation' as organizing principles.