New interpretation of QM, with new two-phase cosmology, solves 15 foundational problems in one go.

[Geoff Dann]

Are you sure that ikaria wariootia developed a model of the external world?

No. But I have a very strong case for claiming it was the first organism capable of such a thing, and it is already considered the prime candidate for the last unique common ancestor of all the animals that intuitively seem conscious. So that limits the time of the phase shift going backwards. And it is limited going forwards by the Cambrian Explosion, which was only 20 million years later. In terms of cosmology, that time frame is a blip. So it doesn't matter if Ikaria wasn't actually LUCAS. It's just the most likely candidate.

 

[marcin]

No. But I have a very strong case for claiming it was the first organism capable of such a thing,

Based on what? You're not biologist nor neurobiologist.

 

[marcin]

So it doesn't matter if Ikaria wasn't actually LUCAS. It's just the most likely candidate.

I agree. It doesn't matter. What matters is that developing the model of the external world, no matter how primitive and how limited to the closest surroundings of LUCAS, formed the whole universe.

 

[Greenlight]

If you pick any complex species evolved enough for consciousness, then how did that species arise from the nothing before it? Is is that you dont need an actual species with consciousness, you just need the quantum probability of one to create itself and its ancestors? if thats the case then time started at the collapse not before, anything before is negative time that never really existed until the wave collapsed and propagated the probabilities backwards. That means the past beyond the universe horizon hasnt happened yet, but it will some time in the past. im so confused. Sorry if some of this was already covered. i didnt read all 100+ replies.

 

[contrarian]

If you pick any complex species evolved enough for consciousness, then how did that species arise from the nothing before it?

It could not have. It must have arisen from a slightly less complex species, as the one before that arose, until you get back to the most primitive proto-bilaterian species just prior to the appearance of some form of consciousness. Some who have studied this believe we are talking about an earthworm as the most basic bilaterian with some form of consciousness.

One of the biggest problems with this whole issue is of course the definition of consciousness in this context. Doubtless that alone is another topic for intense debate.

>>Sorry if some of this was already covered. i didnt read all 100+ replies either.<<