Life and Consciousness, The Next Matrix

An essay on life and consciousness, a blueprint for making conscious machines

To be able to understand more about life and human consciousness, I will, in this paper, investigate the evolution of life on earth and look at some different kinds of consciousness.

With this information it is, in theory, possible to simulate the different components of life and human consciousness, and make conscious machines.

We are interested in consciousness of living beings, especially of human beings.

“A conscious machine requires corporeality of some type, a body, so it can learn via metaphors how to “grow” “Jaynesian consciousness”, Brian McVeigh

This prediction can be understood after reading this paper.

May we become as curious as the octopus.

1 Approach, philosophy and more

2 Neurology

3 Life on earth

3A introduction

3B what is life?

3C what is the life force?

3D what kind of memory is life using?

3E how does metabolism work?

3F how are one-celled bacteria functioning?

3G how did “multi-cellular” organisms evolve?

3H how do tissues organise themselves into organs?

3I How do organs organise themselves into organisms?

4 What makes humans different from other animals?

4A tools

4B standing up

4C vocabulary tract

4D brain volume

4E language, spoken, then written

4F the break-down of the bicameral mind

4G metaphor, the queen of languages

4H conscious interiority

5 How to simulate life? Some speculations

6 How to simulate consciousness? Some speculations

7 Appendix 1: Metabolism, short version of “Transformer”, Nick Lane

8 Appendix 2: Introduction to “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, Julian Jaynes 1976

You will learn about the new biology, and the new physics. About scalar waves, about pi water and more.

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