Lets take the Schroedinger's cat example- it assumes the cat doesnt qualify as an 'Observer'- sentience, at the basic level, is still just chemical interactions and reactions governed by physics... apparently, in this universe, these natural phenomenon can create beings capable of studying the universe...
maybe a universe without sentience does not really exist, who knows? Its the same as asking "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, did it really make a sound?"
At what point does a creature qualify as sentient? Schroedinger didnt think cats qualified as observers, and while I agree (NOT a cat fan), I am not about to try putting a cat in a box- I put a few in pet carriers and have the scars to prove it... (Though, in college, I had a cat that seemed to like travelling inside my jacket while I took it to the vet on my motorcycle) ...
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...or maybe that is the conciet of conciousness
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- Delayed synchronicity
- ponderings of kindergartener
- Kurzweil's interview on C-SPAN2 Book TV now online
- I read a short story with that premise LONG ago...
- "Construction Shack", Clifford D Simak, Short Story, DAW books '74 (n/t)
- Of all man's atifacts, the Universe most resembles a computer model.
- Think of this...
- In languages like C
- re: Think of this...
- Scientific Anomalies and other Provocative Phenomena
- In Buddhist Metaphysics
- "Consciousness seems to be somehow connected to physics, as if consciousness plays some sort of role in the cosmos"
- Maybe psychic phenomenon does have a footing in science.
- Think of this...