Friday, June 24, 2016

Response To https://twitter.com/CrispySea/status/746381424199106560

My proposal does not seem to be that consciousness, as apparently recognized in existence of a certain minimum level of complexity is found in simple energy, but rather, as apparently described in an earlier post, that consciousness seems most logically suggested to consist of high-complexity-awareness formed of lower-complexity awareness of energies compressed and combined with other compressed energies.

Response To https://twitter.com/CrispySea/status/746380877119238144

My suggestion does not seem to be that an alphabet transmits the same complexity of information of a sonnet, but that "the members of an alphabet have all been given a small level of communicative power that, when 'concentrated' into words and then cooperatively combined with other such concentrations of members of an alphabet (words), the much greater communicative power of a sonnet seems recognized". The analogy's apparent parallel seems to be that, although the hypothesized low-complexity awareness of low-complexity energy might not equate to the apparent high-complexity awareness of high-complexity energy concentration combinations, the apparent ability of low-complexity energy to identify and respond to externality seems to most logically constitute awareness, albeit at an apparently low level of complexity.