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I was wondering, is time, our perception of it, a function of the process of our ability to take new information and place it into hierarchical trees? Novel memories are, therefore, simply re-creations, until the import of them can be placed into a hierarchy. If they can't be dealt with in time, so to speak, they get left behind.
We have to maintain flexibility, neuroplasticity, or, oddly, we won't be able to deal with too radical a departure from where we are now from where we once had been. Because to make new memories means to weigh the present and the potential new futures. The more we know about what to expect from that process, the better. We can categorize things. And we can make new categories. We can revise what we've made of ourselves in the past.
Isn't part of consciousness how we feel about ourselves? Isn't the understanding we achieve by being self-aware in large part composed of a moral dimension, where we judge ourselves according to received logic. And also in large part of an experiential dimension, where we are always searching about in our worlds to see what is out there. Many of us see that activity as perceiving opportunity. Some of us might have thought that what we learned in kindergarten might have been more true, and that the search for truth was more important.
What role does memory play in the establishment of who we are? Of course, what is memory? Every time we remember something we actually re-create it. We can add our own touches, if we dare. Most of us do dare.
I was wondering, is time, our perception of it, a function of the process of our ability to take new information and place it into hierarchical trees? Novel memories are, therefore, simply re-creations, until the import of them can be placed into a hierarchy. If they can't be dealt with in time, so to speak, they get left behind.
We have to maintain flexibility, neuroplasticity, or, oddly, we won't be able to deal with too radical a departure from where we are now from where we once had been. Because to make new memories means to weigh the present and the potential new futures. The more we know about what to expect from that process, the better. We can categorize things. And we can make new categories. We can revise what we've made of ourselves in the past.
Isn't part of consciousness how we feel about ourselves? Isn't the understanding we achieve by being self-aware in large part composed of a moral dimension, where we judge ourselves according to received logic. And also in large part of an experiential dimension, where we are always searching about in our worlds to see what is out there. Many of us see that activity as perceiving opportunity. Some of us might have thought that what we learned in kindergarten might have been more true, and that the search for truth was more important.
Time is bound up with space, many theoretical physicists believe space is not fundamental, its emergent.
Many of those same people, some of them very smart, also think consciousness is not emergent, it pre-exists the brain. Thats to say, mind causes brain.
Just as a smartphone doesn't contain all the information within, it contacts the cloud, so the same may be true for the brain, its a portal. Richard Dawkins thinks it is so.
Humans could have been creatures of instinct. But we have achieved a sort of bargain with evolution. We do most of our mental developing after we are born. We learn about the world around us. We don't understand either how to do something or how to interpret most things from birth. We have language, which relies upon the adults among us for it to pass on, in that space. Therefore, whatever those who came before us were doing has an impact upon who we will be. It is interesting in the context of consciousness study what this means. Who are we if we all derive from a consciousness field? Who are we if consciousness is local? What role do others play in who we are? Is there anything unique about us that as individuals we can understand and use to become better? What do these questions mean in the context of time already being set, that the future is actually determined, versus if the future can be changed?
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