| 4. You live in the past. About 80 milliseconds in the past
This may hold true for sensory perceptions, thoughts etc but not for consciousness. When there are no thoughts, there is absolutely no gap in consciousness. When you live "consciously" there is no time-lag.
| 6. Consciousness depends on manipulating time. Many cognitive abilities are important for consciousness, and we don’t yet have a complete picture.
Who is this "we". Consciousness does not depend on anything, unless you've incorrectly defined it. Everything else depends on it.
| Consciousness wouldn’t be possible without the ability to imagine other times
Utter tosh. Who has cooked this up ? We've been through this for at least 2-3 millenia. Those who meditate, and there are lots on HN, understand that consciousness is independent.
"Everyone experiences time differently" -- if we talk of perception of time, then yes. A moment of boredom or pain can feel longer than an hour of pleasure but we all know that.
| 5. Your memory isn’t as good as you think.
We all know this don't we.
| In that very real sense, all animal species experience “the same amount of time.”
We really don't know that do we. Just speculation.
Considering we don't have great definition of consciousness, it's a bit of a stretch for you to say that "Consciousness does not depend on anything..., everything else depends on it".
In fact, your broad statement isn't true. Consciousness does depend on having a physical brain in a certain state of development, and depends upon a "normal" chemical environment surrounding that physical brain (ie, no anesthetics). There are autonomic functions in the brain that absolutely don't depend on consciousness.
Can't you use the Schrödinger equation to assess the wave function and estimate (roughly) the future position?
Also, just because we don't know exactly where the photon will land doesn't mean photons break the laws of physics. Quantum mechanics are difficult to observe by nature -- that's what the uncertainty principle states: there is no way to observe quantum particles without moving them in hard-to-detect ways. I don't think the uncertainty principle states that quantum particles randomly defy the laws of physics in indeterministic fashion.
[+] [-] crazydiamond|14 years ago|reply
| 4. You live in the past. About 80 milliseconds in the past
This may hold true for sensory perceptions, thoughts etc but not for consciousness. When there are no thoughts, there is absolutely no gap in consciousness. When you live "consciously" there is no time-lag.
| 6. Consciousness depends on manipulating time. Many cognitive abilities are important for consciousness, and we don’t yet have a complete picture.
Who is this "we". Consciousness does not depend on anything, unless you've incorrectly defined it. Everything else depends on it.
| Consciousness wouldn’t be possible without the ability to imagine other times
Utter tosh. Who has cooked this up ? We've been through this for at least 2-3 millenia. Those who meditate, and there are lots on HN, understand that consciousness is independent.
"Everyone experiences time differently" -- if we talk of perception of time, then yes. A moment of boredom or pain can feel longer than an hour of pleasure but we all know that.
| 5. Your memory isn’t as good as you think. We all know this don't we.
| In that very real sense, all animal species experience “the same amount of time.”
We really don't know that do we. Just speculation.
[+] [-] sharkbot|14 years ago|reply
In fact, your broad statement isn't true. Consciousness does depend on having a physical brain in a certain state of development, and depends upon a "normal" chemical environment surrounding that physical brain (ie, no anesthetics). There are autonomic functions in the brain that absolutely don't depend on consciousness.
[+] [-] baltcode|14 years ago|reply
I didn't think so (according to current physical theories). We don't know where a particular photon will land in a double slit experiment.
[+] [-] CMartucci|14 years ago|reply
Also, just because we don't know exactly where the photon will land doesn't mean photons break the laws of physics. Quantum mechanics are difficult to observe by nature -- that's what the uncertainty principle states: there is no way to observe quantum particles without moving them in hard-to-detect ways. I don't think the uncertainty principle states that quantum particles randomly defy the laws of physics in indeterministic fashion.
[+] [-] Auguste|14 years ago|reply
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