About Consciousness, Determinism, Infinity and a Measurement
The urge to survive is the strongest and most fundamental urge in the universe, that drives the universe and any living thing inside of it. The fact that the universe tends for complexity and black holes is in fact emergent from the fact that it has the urge to survive. One could define consciousness as the urge to survive. Now, if living things have consciousness, it is not possible that this consciousness was created out of thin air. The only logical conclusion is that all particles (including the elementary particles) have that urge and are conscious. At the scale of elementary particles the explanation is that a particle is continuously having that urge and thus behaves like a wave.
Humans also have this urge, why?
When you ask an LLM (large language model) what an apple is, it will give a description based on results it finds on the web. It would say it is red or green, has a certain shape or that when tasted by humans it would taste sweet, but it would never truly understand what an apple is. The fact that humans know what an apple is, in an absolute way, is through the urge to survive. The fact that it is sweet means it has certain nutrients like sugar, which taste sweet because it is an available energy source, and the fact that it is round and has a certain color helps us identify what an apple is. In addition, the fact that we perceive apples the way we do is because we developed the senses through which we can identify what an apple is in the first place in order to survive.
Where is consciousness in the body?
My idea is that the brain is not the source of consciousness. I argue that each cell in the body is conscious, and that all the cells makes the bigger consciousness that is us. You can think of it like an ant nest. Each ant is working on its own, but the whole nest functions as one unit.
What is the role of the brain?
The brain is the center, and the most important organ in the body. The roles of the brain are vast- getting input from the senses, pattern recognition, memory, analyzing information, feeling emotions and much more. It is important to note that there is no mechanism in the brain that creates consciousness, as the brain is the center of awareness, not of consciousness.
Now, it seems that when one amputates a person’s arm, they are supposed to become less conscious. The reason this isn’t the case is that arms were developed in the first place to survive– to use tools, communicate and hunt. You can do other things which aren’t connected to that urge but without that urge, arms wouldn’t have existed.
About determinism: A way to show it on humans is as follows: Each and every conscious decision we’ve ever made results from the fact that we were born, which is out of our control. That means that every conscious decision is deterministic and does not stem from free will. In addition, the fact that the universe is deterministic rules out the nondeterministic collapse of the wave function.
There is no infinity in the universe, or more accurately there is only one place in which there is infinity. This means two things: a. the density at the moment of the big bang is not infinite; b. There is no randomness as whenever a machine chooses a number at random it is doing so using an algorithm, and so the only way you could achieve true randomness is at infinity. This rules out the many worlds interpretation as there is no infinity and the Copenhagen interpretation as there is no randomness (in addition to what I wrote earlier about the nondeterministic nature of the collapse). In addition, how does the universe know when a measurement happens?
The only place in which there is infinity is this: each black hole contains a universe with a finite number of black holes, and each of them contains a finite number of black holes, and the sum of all black holes is infinity.
About a measurement– my idea is this: you can’t take into consideration all the information about a particle and its drive to survive at every given moment. The fact that a measurement makes it seem like the wavefunction has collapsed is a limitation of us and of our interaction with that particle, as I do not believe that a nondeterministic collapse exists in a universe that I believe to be deterministic.