The HN conversation yesterday about the complexity of the proton, in particular how we poke and prod at it to suss out its qualities and quantities, got me thinking about the subatomic particles of my personal subjective conscious experience.
We can trace, with quite a bit of precision, how a certain photon cocktail results in me perceiving the orange title bar at the top of HN. But where's the orange paint in my brain? What is it made of and how could we inspect it like we inspect the guts of a proton? And furthermore, where's the camera that puts all of those particles of paint onto the same stage? We know where the visual cortex is, yes, but where's the camera that can see the whole stage at one time?
That part, the integration of all of our perception into a single 'stage', is where I've long felt there has to be some kind of quantum or possibly field effect at play. Then I wondered if it might actually be possible for there to be an 'afterlife' of sorts in which the quantum relationship between particles is sustained beyond our life.
For a moment I thought there must be some faulty entanglement in my own brain, but now I think you actually meant to post your comment under a completely different story that's currently on the front page :)
We can trace, with quite a bit of precision, how a certain photon cocktail results in me perceiving the orange title bar at the top of HN. But where's the orange paint in my brain? What is it made of and how could we inspect it like we inspect the guts of a proton? And furthermore, where's the camera that puts all of those particles of paint onto the same stage? We know where the visual cortex is, yes, but where's the camera that can see the whole stage at one time?
That part, the integration of all of our perception into a single 'stage', is where I've long felt there has to be some kind of quantum or possibly field effect at play. Then I wondered if it might actually be possible for there to be an 'afterlife' of sorts in which the quantum relationship between particles is sustained beyond our life.
Dunno. Trippy to think about though.