What 'consciousness' is more precisely....

Is the mind the same as the body? What is consciousness? Can machines have it?

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Re: What 'consciousness' is more precisely....

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Scott Mayers wrote: Tue Dec 01, 2020 2:48 pm "Consciousness" is the set of activity communicating between two different points in space OF two distinct material beings (regardless of what they are) dependent upon ONLY those subparts in each of them that share the same logical structure AND is able and succeeds in transferring some message between each other at the simultaneous point in time at least one of them completes the communication cycle.

This is a long sentence but I wanted to include all the significant parts. So, for example, If we have two humans in different spaces at some point in time who are communicating with each other, the literal exchange of information through the media between them act as their shared consciousness when at least one of them receives the completed message of the other. [Although it may require both for truly 'shared' consciousness, the 'at least one' defines half of the two people as being relatively conscious of the other. But both need to be true for strong affiliated consciousness.

Another example: Given a person and a dog, since these beings are different, we have to ONLY look at the physical constructs they have in common, such as having brains and being mammals. This limits the degree to success of 'shared consciousness' but is at least required. Also, the medium between the two have to be real as well. The more close they are, the stronger the consciousness. When they are communicating (intentional or not), the energy representing this exchange is the activity of consciousness that then requires successful 'contact' to at least one of them. That one able to receive this is relatively 'conscious' . When the dog hears the person speak, the dog is conscious if it can hear and receive the message successfully. Then if the dog complies as the human recognizes it appears to understand, they share a relative 'consciousness'.

Another: Take two electrons at some given distance in space beteen each other. They have the same identical logical structure. Thus they have better capacity to share stronger conscious states than an electron and a proton (assuming some actual degree of distinction atomically speaking). Then if the energy each sends out (without intent, we can likely assume), they are conscious of each other when the energy of at least one is completely received to the other. So they are 'more conscious' if they are close to each other. If they are barred from even the potential of communication, they are not.

Consciousness is specifically defined here to be a type of 'energy' versus matter, but still dependent upon being matter and require having a medium between the two point, dependent on their common denominating structures, their degree of proximity, the degree of completion of the energy exchange and, how well in sync they are with regards to frequency, and to how well they differ in the particular way while being in sync (their phase).


Although this is MY definition and involves a lot more depth to understand the motive and proof of this, this suffices to completely describe what "consciousness" is AND means that all things have some degree.
Consciousness is the state of experience.
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