Well, I’m going to give him credit and say that maybe he does but that it’s beyond the scope of this piece. Or at least there is the seed of an idea there. I mean, even just speculating that such a thing could be true seems worth doing to me.
Anyway, there was a post a few months back in which someone said they did in fact have a scalable definition on consciousness they were eager to have people try on for size:
Apparently in his model one consciousness plus another consciouness = one* consciousnesses. So the theoretical underpinning is out there somewhere.
[In my original typing of this post I said one consciousness plus one made two consciousnesses. That’s not much of a statement. The point is supposed to be that under the theory presented in the podcast consciousness was something that could be mathematically defined, and under that definition a complex consciousness could be divided into small consciousnesses and consciousnesses could combine into larger ones.]
