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PaddyC 24 Apr 2026 23:43 UTC
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If relational consciousness is real then shouldn’t machines already be self aware ?
Just googled about objective understanding and qualia and then I thought if relational consciousness is true then machines should already be self aware.
Unless hameroff is right when he says the computational power needed to match the human brain hasn’t been achieved. Which may mean the machines are aware via relational consciousness, just not very aware ?
“humans have full, immediate understanding of their own qualia from the inside, but they cannot easily translate this private understanding into a public, objective scientific model.”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201606/the-myth-sentient-machines#:~:text=Yet%20somehow%20we%20experience%20the%20world%20subjectively—from,a%20nail%2C%20or%20hear%20a%20moody%20orchestra.

PaddyC 21 Apr 2026 23:10 UTC
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I have questions based on the research done on colour blind monkeys that suggests the brain fills in certain aspects of perception and how much of our perception is subjective eg the essence or isness or the form ? Considering it has been said beyond our subjective perception is the world of quantum fields and particles , or is this discounting evolution ?
If evolution isn’t real, then does this change how much of human perception is likely to be subjective. Ie if god created the universe and resides in another dimension then is our subjective perception based on consciousness and is this related to the quantum world and if it is then why don’t we directly perceive quantum fields and particles. I think this suggests our subjective perception goes beyond isness and extends to form and may even be emergent at the consciousness level as opposed to the brain. Which if the latter is true I think raises questions of how much of reality do we share as sentient beings and why don’t we directly perceive them eg quantum fields and particles ?

PaddyC 9 Mar 2026 4:18 UTC
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It would seems thoughts maybe are atomic in nature as the secret claims (which I guess explains the law of attraction via electromagnetism) because fMRI scans which use magnets can’t prove telepathy in twins despite years of anecdotal evidence saying twins are linked telepathically.
Unless the universe is dualist in nature and thoughts are spiritual but interface with the electromagnetic material nature of the physical universe.
Or if relational consciousness is true and thoughts are emergent from the interaction between sensory input and brain processes or thoughts arise from relational interaction between brain regions. Then thoughts could still somehow be linked to electromagnetic brain waves in dualist or materialist philosophies.

PaddyC 17 Feb 2026 23:24 UTC
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And possibly suggests qualia is more than just the quality or isness of an experience and may extend to include aspects of form or other qualities ?

PaddyC 13 Feb 2026 1:17 UTC
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You could even relate this to quantum physics where the unmeasured waveform exists in a superposition of both waveform / particle at all points in space and time and interferes with itself even as a single particle which when fired through one slit actually travels through both slits simeltaneously , proving the superposition. Could this analogously mean we create our own perception ?

Which reminds me of this book :
https://amzn.asia/d/024IEAXK

PaddyC 6 Feb 2026 23:44 UTC
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The question this video raises for me is how do light waves and the different shapes and patterns they come in affect subjective perception ?

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSaw6xdEP/

PaddyC 23 Jan 2026 3:59 UTC
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Just watched a podcast where the interviewee talked about Charles Bonnet syndrome which causes people with eyesight loss to hallucinate presumably because their brain generated perception fills in the gaps in their eyesight and if true (which I think it is) this proves qualia true !

PaddyC 20 Jan 2026 2:50 UTC
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If it’s the bitterness of coffee that gives you a jolt and causes you to be more alert then does this prove qualia false (although qualia can refer to the isness or quality of an experience which i think can be different to its stated isness or quality, although for something to taste not only reportedly bitter but also have stimulating effects you would think there would have to be a congruency between the two where the bitterness was causing the alertness by its very nature) as that bitterness would need to be common to all coffee drinkers to have that effect unless coffees bitterness and it stimulating effects are psychosomatic and possibly due to the power of suggestion , where by it was anecdotally reported that coffee was bitter and increased alertness and this perception influenced other people’s experience of coffee. However this itself raises questions of subjective perception and qualia.
It reminds me of the time I ate anchovies on pizza without realising it and thought they were delicious until I realised there were anchovies on the pizza which I normally don’t like at which point they tasted disgusting to me. I think this is an example of the power of the subconscious mind to influence perception and possibly even neurotransmitter levels via that perception. But is this enjoyment related to the quality of the experience or something else ?
Although if the coffees stimulating effects were caused by perception rather than a chemical influence then coffee mixed with milk and sugar wouldn’t have the same stimulating effect ? Unless that too is influenced by the power of suggestion and expectation ?

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PaddyC 21 Nov 2025 3:25 UTC
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I am wondering if perception is subjective does this make telepathy impossible as there would need to be a translation mechanism between sender of thought and receiver to translate the message into the receivers subjective perception based thought form which the sender probably couldn’t have the same subjective perception form of (I wonder what the odds are of this ?). With this in mind I wondered if all instances of telepathy are actually precognition possibly enabled by some quantum phenomenon?
Unless idealism is right and consciousness precedes matter with consciousness possibly acting as the ether and common awareness substance that allows for phenomena like telepathy and the shared perception of consciousness generated perception (qualia) ?

I have more rough takes that I posted under various topics that I will post soon.

PaddyC 30 Oct 2025 1:51 UTC
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on: Seeing Red: Dissolving Mary’s Room and Qualia
Just watched a podcast where the interviewee talked about Charles Bonnet syndrome which causes people with eyesight loss to hallucinate presumably because their brain generated perception fills in the gaps in their eyesight and if true (which I think it is) this proves qualia true !

PaddyC 10 Oct 2025 3:50 UTC
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Thinking about qualia in examples where there are only two comparable options eg black and white , could the isness of the black and white be qualitative and how does qualia relate to objects in space ? Eg where black ends and white begins ? I think there was an article about this online.
Another example could be hot and cold. But does the danger to life in extreme examples of hot and cold suggest qualia is false or is there room for subjective perception within physical extremes ?n

PaddyC 3 Oct 2025 0:25 UTC
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Thinking about qualia in examples where there are only two comparable options eg black and white , could the isness of the black and white be qualitative and how does qualia relate to objects in space ? Eg where black ends and white begins ? I think there was an article about this online.
Another example could be hot and cold. But does the danger to life in extreme examples of hot and cold suggest qualia is false or is there room for subjective perception within physical extremes ?n

PaddyC 1 Oct 2025 10:26 UTC
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Think of qualia in terms of the position or orientation of objects in space eg in a black and white picture how does the division between the white and black segments relate to qualia in other words what are the limits to subjective perception ? In terms of brain chemistry this relates to neurotransmitters with the chemistry of subjective perception remaining elusive and unable to be quantified by methods such as blood tests. It is illogical to think all perception is subjective and also serving to hide our true nature because as sentient beings we manage to interact functionally and share space in the phenomenal universe.

PaddyC 11 Sep 2025 9:15 UTC
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Think of qualia in terms of the position or orientation of objects in space eg in a black and white picture how does the division between the white and black segments relate to qualia in other words what are the limits to subjective perception ? In terms of brain chemistry this relates to neurotransmitters with the chemistry of subjective perception remaining elusive and unable to be quantified by methods such as blood tests. It is illogical to think all perception is subjective and also serving to hide our true nature because as sentient beings we manage to interact functionally and share space in the phenomenal universe.

PaddyC 6 Sep 2025 0:22 UTC
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https://enchroma.com/blogs/beyond-color/how-color-blind-see

Does the fact this level of understanding of colour blindness is known and that for example the black and white type of colour blindness is observable and verifiable and contains no colours other than black and white , does this prove subjective perception is false or is there still an intrinsic isness that is unique to the individual ?

PaddyC 4 Sep 2025 5:23 UTC
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https://enchroma.com/blogs/beyond-color/how-color-blind-see

Does the fact this level of understanding of colour blindness is known and that for example the black and white type of colour blindness is observable and verifiable and contains no colours other than black and white , does this prove subjective perception is false or is there still an intrinsic isness that is unique to the individual ?

PaddyC 28 Jul 2025 1:48 UTC
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This notion of a universe not based on subjective perception raises questions about is the universe consciousness based which I think the answer would have to be no unless we are all made of the same mind stuff that gives us common yet mind generated perception.

PaddyC 27 Jul 2025 1:24 UTC
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This notion of a universe not based on subjective perception raises questions about is the universe consciousness based which I think the answer would have to be no unless we are all made of the same mind stuff that gives us common yet mind generated perception.

PaddyC 25 Jul 2025 8:25 UTC
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Still trying to figure out if colour blindness proves qualia true or false … I think it proves it false if two people agree a patch of colour is green and someone else says it is blue then there must be something common between the the three perceiverers, first of all the two who see green for them to agree the patch is green and even between the third perceiver for him to disagree and say it is blue, there has to be I suggest a telepathic link that allows for the agreement and disagreement all to be in congruence with each other even if one of them disagrees on the colour of the patch.

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