Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Time Perception

I think "time-perception" and consciousness are mutually related phenomenon. From scientific perspective, if consciousness is an emergent property of physical processes, is there a theoretical limit on minimum time-resolution of perception?

System level Conscience

Consider the possibility that consciousness is an emergent property of certain neural activity, and at a much basic level, of certain electro-chemical pattern. Under this hypothesis, we can postulate that interactions amongst individual conscious entities may give rise to a society level consciousness. It is, in principle, not required for the individual entities to be "aware" of this social consciousness or vice-versa. When I think back about this, I think there are many people in the past who had very similar thoughts, but hopefully, as science progresses, we will have a much better grasp at this phenomenon.