Tag Archives: Emergence

John Searle: Our shared condition — consciousness

Posted on July 28, 2013 by PlatoHagel

John Searle: Our shared condition — consciousness See Also: The Fundamentals of Consciousness? Dialogos of Eide

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Consciousness, as a Biophotonic System

Posted on July 3, 2013 by PlatoHagel

The structure of optical radiation emitted by the samples of loach fish eggs is studied. It was found earlier that such radiation perform the communications between distant samples, which result in the synchronization of their development. The photon radiation in … Continue reading →

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The Fundamentals of Consciousness?

Posted on January 30, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Ian Waldie/Getty Images Science also lacks even a back-of-the-envelop concept explaining the emergence of consciousness from the behavior of mere matter. We have an elaborate understanding of the ways in which experience depends on neurobiology. But how consciousness arises out … Continue reading →

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Stuart Kauffman on Beyond Reductionism

Posted on January 14, 2013 by PlatoHagel

“It is very good that <a href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/smolin/smolin_p1.html&quot; target="_BLank" title="A Possible Solution For The Problem Of Time In Quantum CosmologyBy Stuart Kauffman and Lee Smolin [4.7.97]”>Stu Kauffman and Lee are making this serious attempt to save a notion of time, since … Continue reading →

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The Photon and Emergence

Posted on October 3, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Consciousness Emerges From Light  Interesting thoughts being expounded by Arthur Young As a materialist, could you say that such a thing could exist..an action traveling in a space between…..the photon shot…..you visualize the spirit of something in comparison “to the … Continue reading →

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Scienceshow/Nanotechnology

Posted on October 1, 2012 by PlatoHagel

PictureThis    This show sequence contains material for easily more than 2 hours of stand-up nanotechnology show with plenty of hands-on activities to keep the audience occupied for much longer. There is a kind of red thread going through the … Continue reading →

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About Knowledge

Posted on July 28, 2012 by PlatoHagel

“As to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.” “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman Justified true belief…..does it matter what knowledge could exist in or … Continue reading →

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Music of the Quantum

Posted on February 14, 2012 by PlatoHagel

The weird quantum nature of the atomic world challenges us to revise the way we view the world around us. We learn that our everyday world – built out of the myriad superposition of matter waves, has an unexpected capacity … Continue reading →

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Historical Figures Lead Us to the Topic of Entanglement

Posted on January 22, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Einstein Exhibit We regard quantum mechanics as a complete theory for which the fundamental physical and mathematical hypotheses are no longer susceptible of modification. –Heisenberg and Max Born, paper delivered to Solvay Congress of 1927 You know I have watched … Continue reading →

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The New Garden of Eden

Posted on August 19, 2008 by PlatoHagel

Is it more astonishing that a God created all that exists in six days, or that the natural processes of the creative universe have yielded galaxies, chemistry, life, agency, meaning, value, consciousness, culture without a Creator. In my mind and … Continue reading →

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