Complexity Theory and the Nature of Consciousness | Science and Nonduality

Is your Roomba robotic vacuum, cleaner is conscious?

DO YOU THINK that your newest ac­quisition, a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner that traces out its unpredictable paths on your living room floor, is conscious? What about that bee that hovers above your marmalade-covered breakfast toast? Or the newborn who finally fell asleep after being suckled?

Nobody except a dyed-in-the-wool nerd would think of the first as being sentient; adherents of Jainism, India’s oldest religion, ­believe that bees—and indeed all living creatures, small and large—are aware; whereas most everyone would accord the magical gift of consciousness to the baby.

Check out this video for what “Complex Theory & Panpsychism says about consciousness.

Key Takeaways:

• Autopoiesis was Varela’s and Maturana’s attempt to define life, or the presence of sentience or mind.
• The self-organizing nature of complexity theory occurs at all levels of scale, from the very simplest to the most complex.
• Similar sensing, processing and responding occurs at the atomic level, with electrons or subatomic particles serving for the transfer of information.

“When it comes to understanding the nature of consciousness in the universe, there are two main philosophical approaches.”

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