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I agree that there could be consciousness without a concept of I. But in humans the concept of I is the meaning that a neuron or perhaps a set or neurons firing produce. In states of drug intoxication it is possible to lose that sense of I because that neuron(s) doesn't trigger in the same way...

I am interested in hearing more about how we would create such a model. We have a hard enough time determining PEM in humans and we don't have the luxury of asking the mice what they are experiencing. Is there a way to reliably give mice ME/CFS?

Is this also an idea of Leibniz? Are you suggesting that good and bad and true and false exist apart from the meaning that our neurons provide? Or is it that the meaning that exists in the neurons is something that ultimately boils down to some indivisible event specifically within that...

I could attempt to argue all day about what we can know and what math is, but I think we agree on enough of the main points (just maybe disagree on how much certainty we require for 'truth'). Hopefully it is not too far offtrack, but I did want to come back to this as I think I misinterpreted...

I agree with the bulk of this. If nothing exists except in the mind of the observer, it seems strange that we would get the sense data that we do. But while I think some external world does exists, because our meaning must be contained by the neurons, it is entirely unknowable and therefore...

You may be right that Leibniz is more deserving and probes deeper than these others. I will need to read him and try to understand how these ideas relate to your work. I can also see how the many of the insights of Descartes, Hume and Kant were actually reflections of how the neuron creates...

One other way I just thought about this might be that there isn't any gravity, red, or cat that is presenting itself to the neuron. It is the signal(s) from inputs or neurons that are doing the presenting. What this signal actually is, the electrical or chemical message, has no relation to the...

I had a similar kind of thought last night but with dogs. When a dog barks to signal something they must be trying to get a human neuron to fire. But because are neurons are probably very different, this only happens in a very crude sense and we have to use vast amounts of input data to...

I will give them a read because this stuff greatly interests me. I think there is something very important in the way language mirrors how meanings travel between neurons. In this case, Natural meaning might refer to the way in which our neurons are wired such that the meaning the neuron(s)...

Meaning as the correspondence with the physical also vindicates Descartes’ Cogito. The statement “I think therefore I am” has something meant by’ the terms ‘I’ and ‘think’ and ‘am’ which can not be taken as necessarily true. But if we take this statement in terms of physical processes we don’t...

Thank you for this. This is amazing stuff and I am honestly surprised these ideas are not more popular. I really like the cellular sweet spot theory as I can see how that could develop through evolution. I have a few questions about the last part of this paragraph and on some of your other posts...

After thinking about it, I actually agree there is no explanation in this case. However, I would argue that this situation is fundamentally different from every other sense of the word ‘meaning’. I haven’t read Frege or Grice, and if you think they are important I would be happy to read them...

It's also amazing that if this is how the brain functions than what I learned in school about being made up of cells is so much more true than I realized. We are quite literally not one thing but a colony of neurons that have no choice but to get along and communicate with one another.

Your paper on roles for the individual neurons is great. I had to spend a few days thinking about it, but the vast majority of parts I understand I agree with. The first few pages on causal reasons and why there must be inner receiving entities were very helpful. I won’t mention all the things I...

Thank you, I plan on looking through these and giving some a read when my brain isn't fried from too much thinking!

Ok, I've been trying to fully grasp what “know what they mean” is referring to, so I wanted to try and give a more concrete example. I like the idea of the shape or geometry of the neuron as encoding the information so I’m going to use that. The shape of the neuron might be dictated according...

I have no issue with there being no enduring self. Conscious experience only exists at the current instant and must update with the same speed as that which the brain can process information. It is my first time hearing about the combination problem. Why does non-locality enter the discussion...

Ok I think I understand what you mean. 'That sense' is some kind of intuition that probably has some evolutionary advantage. It is in a similar sort of sense to the way in which an animal has some intuition to avoid certain predators as you mentioned. So, if Hume would agree that that sort of...

I think this is where we fundamentally disagree. I don't think we know what a carburettor is before we see one. I think we see it and then that new information is stored in the brain. Not that the information was there before and we just discover what to call it. I don't pretend to understand...

I agree that if you were actually showing those things to a child, who doesn't have the logical impressions to deduce it from basic axioms, you would produce pictures and diagrams. But in doing so are we not using basic impressions about sight data to show that two things are the same? I admit...