I have been reading about the possibility of it being an infrasound. Kármán vortex street could have produced infrasound capable of inducing panic. The hikers may have fled the tent in a state of irrational fear caused by the low-frequency sound.
Why do I experience at all? A chair likely doesn't experience the world, or a rock, or a tree.
What is consciousness and how does it work?
Is it the result of having a soul? (yeah, not likely, that's stone-age thinking)
Is it an emergent property of neural computation? (more reasonable). If so, is it substrate dependent? Would a sufficiently complex neural processor have an "experience" while it is running inference?
Similarly, what is it like to be a bat. Is there such a thing as to experience being a bat? Or, if I were to exchange bodies with a bat would the "lights go out" so to speak?
Your questions, and our consciousness is something I think about a lot. My thoughts constantly change around the topic, but right now I feel like consciousness is an enormous gift we have been given, earned, or created. Sometimes I search for the origins or minute differences between life/non-life or being animated/non-animated. Seems like we can't pinpoint the moment or difference.
I have really enjoyed some of the presentations I’ve watched by anesthesiologists on how they know when a patient is conscious or not based on vital signs and brain activity. Seems like we understand when humans are experiencing things, and when they are not, by peering into the brain. As if consciousness is the result of synchronization across various brain regions. There are numerous traumas and diseases that disrupt the synchronization and cause patients to lose consciousness. It’s just so fascinating to me.
I’m hopeful that one day AI research will push our understanding of this topic way deeper than it is today. Not only are we designing neural networks that mimic the architecture we see in biological brains, but AI may be so advanced one day as to brute force some of these hard problems and essentially do the work for us in finding deeper discoveries. Look at what AI has already accomplished in the hard task of protein folding.
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
What happened to the Dyatlov Pass crew? https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-dyatlov-pass-part-1
I have been reading about the possibility of it being an infrasound. Kármán vortex street could have produced infrasound capable of inducing panic. The hikers may have fled the tent in a state of irrational fear caused by the low-frequency sound.
Do we breathe to live, or do we breathe to die ? :)
The Lost City of Atlantis.
Who am I?
Who are we?
How does a 777 vanish the way MH370 did.
Where did all the debris go?
what happened to DB Cooper?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
Why are the masses so easily and perpetually fooled by the ruling class? The people really are retarded.
The hard problem of consciousness.
Agree
Where are my car keys?
Why do I experience at all? A chair likely doesn't experience the world, or a rock, or a tree.
What is consciousness and how does it work?
Is it the result of having a soul? (yeah, not likely, that's stone-age thinking)
Is it an emergent property of neural computation? (more reasonable). If so, is it substrate dependent? Would a sufficiently complex neural processor have an "experience" while it is running inference?
Similarly, what is it like to be a bat. Is there such a thing as to experience being a bat? Or, if I were to exchange bodies with a bat would the "lights go out" so to speak?
Your questions, and our consciousness is something I think about a lot. My thoughts constantly change around the topic, but right now I feel like consciousness is an enormous gift we have been given, earned, or created. Sometimes I search for the origins or minute differences between life/non-life or being animated/non-animated. Seems like we can't pinpoint the moment or difference.
I have really enjoyed some of the presentations I’ve watched by anesthesiologists on how they know when a patient is conscious or not based on vital signs and brain activity. Seems like we understand when humans are experiencing things, and when they are not, by peering into the brain. As if consciousness is the result of synchronization across various brain regions. There are numerous traumas and diseases that disrupt the synchronization and cause patients to lose consciousness. It’s just so fascinating to me.
I’m hopeful that one day AI research will push our understanding of this topic way deeper than it is today. Not only are we designing neural networks that mimic the architecture we see in biological brains, but AI may be so advanced one day as to brute force some of these hard problems and essentially do the work for us in finding deeper discoveries. Look at what AI has already accomplished in the hard task of protein folding.
“What a time to be alive!!”
Existence of alien life. Statistically there almost certainly must be, but have/will they ever been/be here?
Sasquatch or Big Foot
and Loch Ness Nessie
As I know The Millennium Prize Problems, one of them (Poincare conjecture) has been already solved
Do we live in a matrix?
For me it was always: Why does the universe exist? Who created it? If there is a God, who created God? Drives me nuts ...
Why are we here? Who created this universe? What's at the edge? And what's after the edge?
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