>>13935507So basically as I understand it, the main way to understand consciousness is to understand the mechanism of being an observer and correlating neurons to that experience doesn't necessarily mean that thing is observing something.
Two theories are possible then, either consciousness is an illusion and the way we experience it is by self referencing with our past self constantly and consistently which is why when you become very interested in something you tend to lose time as you are referencing with your past self less. (The loop you experience in this infinite regression is consciousness.)
The second option is that consciousness is the observer manifesting itself in physical reality by using sense data and since this means it transcends physical reality the observer can't be measured. This also necessarily means that consciousnesses can stack on top of each other, this model predicts that a colony of ants has a singular consciousness. The entirety of human civilization has a consciousness and even on some level individual countries do.
My question would then be why would these consciousnesses have separate and distinct experiences. I guess it would be that even though consciousness transcends physical reality it seems to be necessarily emergent from it as well. (The physical world is necessary for conscious experiences, but also the consciousness is necessary for the physical world.)
Or I might just be an idiot thinking to hard about something I haven't studied in.
