First I think basing your evidence on the impression of consciousness being a continuous process is very misguiding. Also if you go on the scale of neurons being analog, if you go on the scale of transistor and even more so memristor you could say that the process inside them are stream of electrons continuous in nature.
Second, I have a theory about the nature of consciousness and the universe that if true would make any digital mind conscious. While I do not have evidence on the subject apart of some concording observations I think it would be interesting to expose it there.
I am going to build my theory on a few axioms and work from there.
Mathematics exist
What this means is that Mathematics exist in a way that is as real as atoms (and in fact more real in a way). My only proof to that is that Mathematics works and impact our world in a very real and tangible way.
By Mathematics I’ll define it as the set which contain every mathematical objects, including algorithms.
If Mathematics exists then our universe exist.
Because Mathematics exist, this means that if there was an application that emulate perfectly our universe, then our universe would really exist.
But our universe is not any kind of universe
Indeed there is two elements at play here. First and foremost our universe must hold intelligent conscious life, otherwise we would not exist in it. Second, not all mathematical objects in our grand Mathematics set are equals. For instance in our set there is pi, but you would also find pi, every time you find a circle. Meaning that the “number” of pi in your set is much greater than one (I know not very rigorous of a demonstration process but I am just exposing an idea). The idea is that in your Mathematics set your objects count as many time as they appear in subsets or as properties in other mathematical objects.
Which means that if your consciousness can go in an equiprobable way into any universe where consciousness if will pick one of the “simpler” ones. Because “simpler” mathematical objects will appear more time into other more complex mathematicals objects.
So with that our universe would be among the simplest universe with consciousness in it. That would explain the Big Bang, because a simple start to our universe made the following complexity more “likely”. It would explain why our universe possess 3 spatial dimensions for instance: 1 and 2 dimensions is not enough for complex life, 4 and higher make the universe too unlikely for us to exist in it.
Your stable consciousness exist because the brain is equivalent to an application which perfectly describe your consciousness
So, your consciousness is actually a continuous application that at any moment gives you “your state of consciousness” at an instant. What I mean is that your “state of consciousness” for lack of better word is actually a mathematical element, perhaps in a mathematical structure with a neutral element (neutral element = death).
This application would be much more complex than the equation describing our universe, if that the case then your consciousness application would be much more likely to exist as the product of a simpler mathematical element (the universe) than as a disincarnated incoherrent consciousness.
This also means that if brains can be equivalent to your consciousness application, then the same application by a computer would make no difference.
How to prove it ? Well if physicist find a single mathematical function capable of emulating the universe perfectly (scale not withstanding), it would be a clear indicator of me being right. Also someone more intelligent than me might be able to prove it more toroughly like a math theorem (since the idea is pretty much that everything is math).
I took a few years to come up with the idea, and I think I should make it into its own topic. My explanation might not be very clear and english is not my mother tongue. (I went kinda off topic but it was fun)
First I think basing your evidence on the impression of consciousness being a continuous process is very misguiding. Also if you go on the scale of neurons being analog, if you go on the scale of transistor and even more so memristor you could say that the process inside them are stream of electrons continuous in nature.
Second, I have a theory about the nature of consciousness and the universe that if true would make any digital mind conscious. While I do not have evidence on the subject apart of some concording observations I think it would be interesting to expose it there.
I am going to build my theory on a few axioms and work from there.
Mathematics exist
What this means is that Mathematics exist in a way that is as real as atoms (and in fact more real in a way). My only proof to that is that Mathematics works and impact our world in a very real and tangible way.
By Mathematics I’ll define it as the set which contain every mathematical objects, including algorithms.
If Mathematics exists then our universe exist.
Because Mathematics exist, this means that if there was an application that emulate perfectly our universe, then our universe would really exist.
But our universe is not any kind of universe
Indeed there is two elements at play here. First and foremost our universe must hold intelligent conscious life, otherwise we would not exist in it. Second, not all mathematical objects in our grand Mathematics set are equals. For instance in our set there is pi, but you would also find pi, every time you find a circle. Meaning that the “number” of pi in your set is much greater than one (I know not very rigorous of a demonstration process but I am just exposing an idea). The idea is that in your Mathematics set your objects count as many time as they appear in subsets or as properties in other mathematical objects.
Which means that if your consciousness can go in an equiprobable way into any universe where consciousness if will pick one of the “simpler” ones. Because “simpler” mathematical objects will appear more time into other more complex mathematicals objects.
So with that our universe would be among the simplest universe with consciousness in it. That would explain the Big Bang, because a simple start to our universe made the following complexity more “likely”. It would explain why our universe possess 3 spatial dimensions for instance: 1 and 2 dimensions is not enough for complex life, 4 and higher make the universe too unlikely for us to exist in it.
Your stable consciousness exist because the brain is equivalent to an application which perfectly describe your consciousness
So, your consciousness is actually a continuous application that at any moment gives you “your state of consciousness” at an instant. What I mean is that your “state of consciousness” for lack of better word is actually a mathematical element, perhaps in a mathematical structure with a neutral element (neutral element = death).
This application would be much more complex than the equation describing our universe, if that the case then your consciousness application would be much more likely to exist as the product of a simpler mathematical element (the universe) than as a disincarnated incoherrent consciousness.
This also means that if brains can be equivalent to your consciousness application, then the same application by a computer would make no difference.
How to prove it ? Well if physicist find a single mathematical function capable of emulating the universe perfectly (scale not withstanding), it would be a clear indicator of me being right. Also someone more intelligent than me might be able to prove it more toroughly like a math theorem (since the idea is pretty much that everything is math).
I took a few years to come up with the idea, and I think I should make it into its own topic. My explanation might not be very clear and english is not my mother tongue. (I went kinda off topic but it was fun)