Top products from r/consciousness
We found 9 product mentions on r/consciousness. We ranked the 6 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Godel Escher Bach An Eternal Golden Braid
Show Reddit reviews2. On the Mechanisms of Consciousness: How consciousness works
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4. The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-Being
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Number of reviews: 1
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You might already know this, but all of mathematics is a measurement of some sort. If it can be observed it can be measured. However, finding a way to make it scientific is a bit harder.
You might like GEB or it's sibling I Aam A Strange Loop. If you like any of those as a follow up Metamagical Themas is pretty entertaining.
As for mapping the system of the mind, that has quite a bit to it, depending on what level of detail you're looking for. Hofstadter is a great start, but outside of that is there anything specific you're curious about? Consciousness is a big word, which is why there are multiple ≈thousand page books talking about only parts of it.
It happened almost by chance. I have always been a "seeker", but never a "finder". I discovered the work of Lester Levenson, specifically, The Sedona Method.
After discovering this work, I began doing it constantly. All day, every day. Going through every emotion, every past event that was still troubling me. I dropped it all, I felt lighter and lighter as I did this. On the sixth day after beginning this practice, everything just kind of shifted. I felt at peace with myself and the world. Thinking mostly stopped, and the thoughts that did come I did not take ownership of. They were not "my" thoughts, just thoughts.
I felt love and compassion for everything. It was a lot like taking psychedelic drugs, but without the distortion of reality or body high. I laughed a lot.
I don't know what else to say, I will answer any questions you have.
Your are spot on to say that consciousness is created relatively simple by the right neural architecture. There are a couple of twists in that architecture that give rise to the subtleties in it and some of the apparent philosophical mysteries.
I have just started a blog and published an e-book on how consciousness works, making everything as simple, clear and explicit as I can .
Please take a look and let me know your thoughts:
Blog: http://pjm678.wixsite.com/consciousness
E-book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mechanisms-Consciousness-How-consciousness-works-ebook/dp/B01N4LPLAD
Regards
Peter Martin
Here's an account of how consciousness may work that should fit well with your background as a computer engineer. If you implement it before I do, let me know!
https://www.amazon.com/Mechanisms-Consciousness-How-consciousness-works-ebook/dp/B01N4LPLAD/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484688436&sr=8-1&keywords=peter+martin+consciousness
It seems that your comment contains 1 or more links that are hard to tap for mobile users.
I will extend those so they're easier for our sausage fingers to click!
Here is link number 1 - Previous text "GEB"
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Here’s a new book that explains consciousness.
This comprehensive new theory posits that thought is actually information content produced by neural activity, existing in higher dimensional space in accordance with the holographic principle.
What We Are: The Physical Basis of Consciousness