Order From Chaos : The subjective character of experience

Sammanfattning

A profound puzzle lies in how the brain’s information processing gives rise to consciousness. This paper will discuss how and why there can be processes that give rise to subjective experience.Diverging from mainstream media, this paper will first demonstrate that there is no direct correlation between rising intelligence and the ability to gain subjective experience. In the core of the paper, a speculative idea is brought forward: the ability to filter noise is what gives a being the ability to develop subjective experience. This could mean a system that can take all of the information and pick out the relevant parts. Every other sensory input that is seemingly unnecessary will be part of the experience, offering a unique point of view. It is like something to be conscious, and the argument is that all of this seemingly unnecessary information is part of that, giving the conclusion that this could be how subjective experience emerges. Further speculation suggests that a developing component answers why consciousness emerges from a system that is only filtering noise. This would mean a system constantly refining its ability to filter noise and interact with the world. This ongoing refinement, this journey of sorting order from chaos, is integral to the development of subjective experience.