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torquillA fundamentally new way of thinking about consciousness that is spreading like wildfire through the theoretical physics community
This might extend beyond humans and computers into a means of describing nontangible phenomena. It's completely consistent, for example, with my experience of sentience arising from certain arrangements of life energy, and it might fit very well into the worldview of practicing pagans. So long as there is the ability to store information -- and as we know from quantum computing and fiber-optics, energy can store a great deal of information using different states -- and integration as a coherent whole, consciousness can result. That would include life-energy nodes, group consciousness, the theory of Schumann resonance and racial consciousness, the coherent cosmos, and a bunch of other very "woo" concepts.
The theory isn't sufficiently complete yet (as the article notes), but the fact that it's not being laughed completely out of academia is something. Even string theory finally came into the halls as a kind of alternate way of looking at things, and in some cases it's found to describe the universe better than classical theories. Maybe this will be similar.
This might extend beyond humans and computers into a means of describing nontangible phenomena. It's completely consistent, for example, with my experience of sentience arising from certain arrangements of life energy, and it might fit very well into the worldview of practicing pagans. So long as there is the ability to store information -- and as we know from quantum computing and fiber-optics, energy can store a great deal of information using different states -- and integration as a coherent whole, consciousness can result. That would include life-energy nodes, group consciousness, the theory of Schumann resonance and racial consciousness, the coherent cosmos, and a bunch of other very "woo" concepts.
The theory isn't sufficiently complete yet (as the article notes), but the fact that it's not being laughed completely out of academia is something. Even string theory finally came into the halls as a kind of alternate way of looking at things, and in some cases it's found to describe the universe better than classical theories. Maybe this will be similar.