Cosmin Visan

I didn't have any awakening, like through psychedelics or some other special state of consciousness. I'm just thinking about these things for more than a decade, and these are the results.

I invite you to discover my new paper "How Self-Reference Builds the World" where I show how starting from self-reference as the entity with the property of looking-back-at-itself, all qualia, thus consciousness, can be obtained. The paper can be found on my internet profiles, such as: https://philpeople.org/profiles/cosmin-visan

Thank you all for the appreciations!

Dave is a very rude manchild. I don't know how any civilized person can watch him for more than 5 seconds.

You start with self-reference. But self-reference is a peculiar entity, it is both form and formless at the same time. And the looking-back-at-itself is basically done by the formless, which by this process becomes form. And formless, since it doesn't have any form, it is not an object, so it is Nothing.

Explain it!

There are many fine tunings that were required for life that somehow magically just happened, including things like the water expanding when it freezes such as to allow life in oceans to continue underneath. You don't explain them by "chemistry".

What AI rights ? They are just objects. You should learn some philosophy and computer programming to stop believing in fantasies.

1. It has nothing to do with what I'm talking about in the paper. In the true self-reference, itself is really itself. In your example it is a pseuo-itself, just words-play like "This sentence is false" and Russell's paradox. 2. It didn't learn anything, because learning is only a property of consciousness. 3. Is not even an "it" since it doesn't even exist. Is just a picture in your consciousness.