[extropy-chat] Role of MWI and Time Travel

[Samantha Atkins]

That phrase is already in use in many ways, some of them rather woo- 
woo.  It is not a "field giving rise to consciousness..".     
Consciousness, etc. arise from information processing of the brain.

- samantha

On May 26, 2006, at 2:27 PM, The Avantguardian wrote:

>
>
> --- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
>> Please
>> let's not label what
>> we mean by using this old word with tons of tired
>> baggage.
>
> I agree with you Samantha although I think Russell is
> correct when he says there is a baby in the bathwater,
> whatever we choose to label it. I would therefore
> propose calling it a "psychogenic field". This is very
> specific, has no historical baggage, and has room to
> grow as it starts to be scientifically characterized.
>
> Just as the Higgs field gives rise to the scalar of
> mass, I suggest that the psychogenic field gives rise
> to consciousness, will, and volition.
>
>
> Stuart LaForge
> alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu
>
> "What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics  
> students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my  
> task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand  
> it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is  
> because I don't understand it. Nobody does." - Richard Feynman on QM
>
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