Gravity arises due to mass and so it may be with consciousness

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3. Consciousness as a Universal Law:
What Makes Something Conscious?
Gravity arises due to mass and so it may be with consciousness
Lorenz Duremdes, Polymath
Jan 5 · 3 min read
irst of all, I would like to thank Britni Pepper for introducing me to this
wonderful idea:
A good question, but it has been answered already.
The body and the mind provide a avour to awareness. We see through bodily eyes,
walk with bodily legs, recall our…
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It’s a really simple idea actually, or at least its basis:
Just like gravity arises due to mass, consciousness arises due to X.
Now, what would “X” be?
I mean, obviously matter and energy, but how should they intertwine with
each other in such a way that consciousness arises i.e. what would the
minimum requirement be for consciousness?
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4. I am currently reading the book:
Consciousness and the Brain
It seems we are, nally, starting to solve the mystery of what
consciousness is, and how the brain creates it…
www.goodreads.com
I am still only halfway through and it definitely teaches you how
consciousness works in the human brain i.e. what (scientific law). But I still
wonder what the minimum requirement would be for consciousness i.e. the
“why” (scientific theory):
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5. Universal Law?
f we are going to propose that a universal law is defined as, when X
requirements are met, Y arises out of those elements e.g. gravity or
consciousness, then we might as well say that there are millions of different
universal laws, although they may compress into overlapping laws e.g.
electromagnetism.
Consciousness, then, could be one of them, or a component of another
universal law(s).
The book mentioned above does say that this is apparently the century
where major breakthroughs will be made in the science of consciousness, so
I am very excited to see them.
What are your thoughts on this?
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