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ECB UNIVERSE
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A spiritual awakening is like being struck by lightning. One doesn’t get struck by lightning for a reason. A lightning is not aware that it strikes a human, it is not concerned with benefiting the human by striking them, it doesn’t have any lessons to deliver to the human it strikes.
A lightning strikes, because such is it’s nature. It strikes whatever happens to stand in it’s path, be it a human, a tree, a house, a rock, earth, water. It doesn’t matter to the lightning what happens to be in it’s vicinity when it expresses it’s nature by being itself.
Awakening happens when awareness suddenly expands and becomes aware as itself, as matter. It doesn’t matter what that matter is - it can be a human, or an animal, or a tree, or a mountain. Awareness doesn’t flare up in order to benefit a human. Awareness expands because such is it’s nature. If a human happens to be in the way, as it were, the human get caught up in the experience, but the experience has nothing to do with the human, just like being struck by lightning has nothing to do with the human.
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CK Surprisingly, many brain regions do not contribute meaningfully to experience. This is true for the cerebellum, despite having more than four times more nerve cells than neocortex. Even in neocortical tissue, the most complex piece of highly excitable matter in the known cosmos, some sectors have a much more intimate relationship to experience than others.
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CK Yet knowing the neural correlates of consciousness does not answer the more fundamental question: Why these neurons and not those? Why this vibration and not that one? Identifying some form of physical activity as generating a feeling is laudable progress. But ultimately we want to know why this mechanism goes hand in hand with experience. What is it about the biophysics of the brain, but not, say, the liver—another complex biological organ—that evokes the ephemeral feelings of life?
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EVO PATH DEPENDENCE
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CK Consciousness belongs to the natural realm. Just like mass and charge, it has causal powers. To create human-level consciousness in a machine, the intrinsic causal powers of the human brain must be instantiated at the level of the metal, the transistors and wiring making up its hardware. I will show that the intrinsic causal powers of contemporary computers is puny compared to those of brains. Thus, artificial consciousness calls either for computer architectures radically different from those of today’s machines or for a merging of neural and silicon circuits as envisioned by transhumanist
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