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- question - how do you know when you are part of a larger cognitive system?
- answer - adjacency - synchronicity - lower level example - two neurons talking to each other - Michael Levin - Mark Solms foundation theory of affect
question - how do you know when you are part of a larger cognitive system?
- answer - adjacency - synchronicity - lower level example - two neurons talking to each other - Michael Levin - Mark Solms foundation theory of affect
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- answer - synchronicity - lower level example - two neurons talking to each other - Michael Levin
- Mark Solms foundational theory of affect
- adjacency relationship
- This is a very interesting question and Michael Levin provides a very interesting answer
- First, it is very interesting that Mark Solms points out that affect is foundational to cognition
- This is evident once we begin to think of the fundamental goals of any individual of any species is to optimize survival
- The positive or negative affects that we feel are a feedback signal that measures how successful we are in our efforts to survive
- Hence, it is more accurate to ask:
- How do you know if and when you are part of a larger affective-cognitive system?
- Levin illustrates the multi-level nature of simultaneous consciousness by looking at two neurons "in dialogue" with each other, and potentially speculating about a "higher level of consciousness", which is in fact, the level you and I operate at and take for granted
- This speculative question is very important for it also can be generalized to the next layer up,
- Do collectives of humans, each one experiencing itself a unified, cohesive inner perspective, constitute a higher level "collective consciousness"?
- If we humans experience feelings and thinking whilst we have a well defined physical body, then
- what does a society feel and think whilst not having such a well defined physical body?