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Consciousness first names the objects of objective reality and then names the traces and processes of interaction of various objects of objective reality.
Consciousness does not construct interaction, it reveals details, i.e. the boundaries of objects of objective reality that are reflected in the brain and establishes elements of these boundaries that are traces of interaction, identifies cause-and-effect relationships of interactions and constructs their model, but not reality itself.
Constructed reality is virtual reality, and it has nothing to do with objective reality.
Calls it.
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Consciousness reflects reality, and reality reflects consciousness.
Consciousness is registered information.
As part of the answer to this question, I will use the term “reality” to refer to matter as a part of matter.
It is the observer who constructs reality, not the observer's consciousness.
Consciousness provides information for constructing reality.
Answer: both.�
Consciousness reflects information about past reality in order to construct a future reality.
Substance reflects the information that is in the mind through action. The observer is the constructor itself, the one who chooses the action, and the one who acts (constructs).
A person is able to perceive a very narrow spectrum of signals from the outside. These are electromagnetic waves in an extremely small range; air vibrations in very modest limits; molecules of a limited number of substances that are nearby (smell + taste), and a small number of properties of objects when touching them. All reality that is beyond this spectrum of signals (which is 99.99999…..%) does not exist for our perception.
But that's not all. The brain receives a huge stream of signals every second, and in order to be able to process it, it filters this stream in several stages. Most likely, these filters have evolved in an evolutionary way: the brain tries to leave out everything that is not directly related to survival.
After the pre-conscious filters, the work of consciousness itself begins. First, the received signals need to be grouped, classified, and correlated with each other. For example, when we select a trapezoid shape from the surrounding image, we first understand that it is actually a rectangle in perspective. By matching it to the four columns below, we can recognize the final image by comparing it to the vast catalog of our” library ” of images: a table is in front of us.
Thus, the reality we perceive is carefully filtered signals from our senses, from which our most powerful perceptual apparatus puts together a certain picture. This picture has a very remote relation to the “real” reality, and is determined by the history of our evolution, as well as the upbringing that we received in childhood.
Thoughts out loud…
Oh, these intellectual games, games in which people try to prove their worth.
The motivation here is either the desire to assert yourself, or the desire to get money. In the first case, there is psychological (moral) compensation in the form of public approval/recognition/fame, and in the second – financial (material) – it is more profitable to sell your intellectual product. However, there is also a third one – entertainment, when the subject plays for their own pleasure, receiving emotional compensation. Such “people” do not follow the rules of the game, are able to improvise, creating new games, because they are not conditioned by anything…
These behavioral manifestations were noted by psychologists. But there are others – they are not so obvious and are highlighted by other specialists working with information.
Their essence is that consciousness is an open information system. Consequently, it requires not only a constant influx of new heterogeneous information (which is provided by cognition in its various methods), but also the return (outflow) of its own information to the external environment (in this case, the social one).
The information produced here can be diverse – from gossip and curiosities marked by the Nobel Prize, to serious scientific discoveries that dramatically accelerate the evolution of a technologized society.
The artist wants to display his ideas about the world in paintings, the composer – in music, the sculptor – in stone sculptures, the engineer-in technical devices, etc.
This is precisely the reason for the emergence and strengthening of such phenomena of earthly civilization as spiritual and material culture.
Let's look at some important problems of cognition.
The first. Truth is always relative (local); there is no absolute truth…
This means that each of us, defending our own rightness (point of view), really speaks the truth. Within the framework of his worldview (his frame of reference), he is always right. But then the question arises – how does all this fit together, how to deal with the opinions of other people?
The answer will seem paradoxical – and they are all right (each in their own way, within their own worldview systems). It's like with a mosaic canvas – each fragment is quite objective, but reflects only a part of reality. And only all together, complementing each other, they create a complete image. Therefore, it is necessary to observe the principle of complementarity, when local knowledge is integrated into a single picture of the world.
The second point. It consists in the infinity of the process of cognition itself. After all, the more humanity accumulates knowledge, the more significant the abyss of uncertainty (uncertainty) appears. This is well illustrated by the circle, where the inner area is all that is known at the current moment of historical time, and the outer area is what is to be discovered, revealed, and established. It turns out an endless race for the receding horizon…
The realization of this situation prompted Socrates to ironically say: “I know that I don't know anything.” So negligibly small is the amount of knowledge of an individual in relation to the vast Universe.
But, it turns out, everything is extraordinary here – knowledge is still finite due to the limited existence (life) of substrate carriers of consciousness, whether it is biological (as in humans), or man-made (as in AI), or some other unknown to us. On which other types and forms of extraterrestrial (cosmic) intelligence can be based.
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending,” the ancient sages said.
There is another long-known and very exotic (exclusive) way to stop cognition – the achievement of a person's phase of an awakened state of consciousness. Then it (consciousness) merges with reality itself and the search for truth is completed.
And, returning to the specifics, consciousness reflects reality in all its diversity, and creates reality in a variety of new (previously absent) forms. One complements the other.
Moreover, creativity proceeds both directly-within the framework of consciousness itself – with the receipt of an intellectual product, and indirectly-through human (physical) efforts and technical devices – with the production of a mass of new material objects and the artificial habitat itself as a whole.
This is very easy to check. Take a simple subject and ask several people to describe it independently. If the descriptions are similar, you will have to admit that the object objectively exists, and consciousness only reflects reality, although, perhaps, not very accurately,
Consciousness chooses one of the variants of the quantum state of the universe
According to the multiverse theory proposed by the American physicist Hugh Everett, we can exist simultaneously in several parallel realities, in which an object cannot have a certain position and speed at a certain moment, and all events are described by probabilities and waves that occupy certain areas of space. Such systems belong to the quantum theory that describes the state of matter at the subatomic level.�
However, our brain is set up to perceive our reality as one and unchangeable, despite the possible existence of many realities. Our brain takes into account only one decision about how we should act at a certain time. For example, we either stop or keep moving, but we can't make both decisions at the same time. According to the theory, to implement one of the possible options, an observer must perform an act of observation. At the moment of observation, the observer causes the wave function to collapse, which in turn violates the uncertainty. The decision-making process is a process of observation or measurement. Therefore, by choosing one particular solution, we destroy the uncertainty, and our brain moves from the quantum state to the classical state, therefore, we perceive our reality as a single one.
Researchers suggest that the vast majority of active brain activities occur unconsciously, and our consciousness is like the tip of an iceberg. But they argue that there are also no well-defined areas of the brain that are the ” home of consciousness.” At some point, neurons can perform different functions of both conscious and unconscious activity. The transition from unconsciousness to consciousness can occur through the collapse of the wave function. Consciousness is thus a self-organizing process at the edge of the quantum and classical worlds.
Undoubtedly, the theory of quantum consciousness is still in its infancy and needs further experimental confirmation or refutation. According to quantum theory, in the process of observing, we choose one of the options for realizing the Universe and thus perceive the real world around us. Thus, consciousness reflects reality.
Sources:
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