SUBJECTIVE UNIVERSE. A Cosmological solipsism?

 

 

Imagine that an astronaut goes into space to find the limit of the universe. He aims to reach the final frontier, to know what lies beyond background radiation, which would, according to the Big Bang theory, the limit of the physical universo.

 

 

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To see if you can accomplish your feat, dive into your brain, as if we were an invading spirit.

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Done! Right now we are inside the brain of an astronaut and perceive the stellar universe he perceives. In this case, we are concerned of the controls and instruments.

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In this other picture we see the universe, as he sees it from a distance, inside the ship; even a lock of hair falling on our left eye. (Please present this image N° 4 for the explanation to come later).

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If we are consistent with what we perceive, our astronaut is locked in his subjective universe. although it progresses forward your ship will always be at the center of his mental universe. This universe varies in pictures, near stars, nebulae etc. .. leaves behind and give you the feeling that moves through a physical universe, but since in reality the universe is contained in your brain will always be stationary in the center of his mental world.

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This image may help to clarify what happens: it perceives the universe astronaut, who alone can tell is always happening inside his head.

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You'll never get out of it, but reach the ends of the cosmos. You can not do what the picture shows below: to escape from the subjectivity.

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You can not escape his own inner world to behold that which is out of your brain. His mental world is unlimited but finite and constrained his skull.

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No one can escape the universe of your mind and see the "out there".

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However, the above four images (6,7,8 and 9), are merely explanatory, since no one can see what happens inside the skull of another, then all we have is the perception of what an astronaut ... he perceives. (Remember the image N° 4 I asked you to remember? It is the same as No. 10 below)

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According to neuroscience, the visual experience is actually two dimensional, like a photogram or a picture that is generated in the occipital lobe. Then, everyone astronaut, which actually receives, can be conceived as a series of events of consciousness, similar to photographs or frames solitary, in an unfamiliar environment.

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No can not even say or assume as in the previous explanatory sheets of a real brain and real skull which can escape, because in fact, we are just a succession of events of consciousness as well as sensed Hume and Avenarius.

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So, for that seems counterintuitive, but in full agreement with the current neuroscientific explanation, which assumes that within the brain we perceive the universe is generated, leads to a kind of cosmological solipsism ... the Cosmos, by vast and boundless enough, happens, has happened and will happen within our skull (cranium whose existence, so explained above, we can never prove or check).

And as far as I know and I feel ... there we are alone.

 

 

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WHERE I'M ?

WHERE IS THE OBSERVER ?

I 'm going to suggest a simple gedanken or thought experiment , which has added that it is not impossible with the future and perhaps can be performed within a few decades technology.Suppose a person has extended the " neural wiring " that comes from your spine and the same for the optic nerves. Earlier this person has understood by a brief explanation of the window effect that all things perceived both sees, touches , hears, tastes or smells are representations that occur inside your brain .After this explanation, the experimental subject is asked to take a pencil. You can accept no major traumas that the pencil you are holding is a mental representation that is generated in your brain.Then we lift the lid of the skull with a surgical saw and since your brain, no prior approval of adding " neural wiring " is an extension of neuronal stem and optic nerves , we extract his brain and put it in his hands. The subject of the experiment can see and touch your brain. If the Observer is clear that the touch and sight are generated insights into your brain will conclude with great surprise , that his brain is also a mental representation and therefore has no physical existence : it is a creation more of your senses , which now checks astonishment may not be the causal agent that allows you to perceive visually and tactilely .The question will arise , while holding your brain trembling hands, is the classic of philosophy and mysticism : What am I ? Or Where am I really ?However, to our volunteer shocks are not over. Since we also add fiber to their optic nerves , eyes retreated behind basins and separate at a reasonable distance and back , so that the subject can observe your brain and body to two meters away .If you then with a pin prick him his hand the subject will experience the puncture and the distance as your hand is removed from the stimulus.The key question is :Where do you feel the stimulus ?
 Recodemos that your body is watching from a distance. We can not say you feel the stimulus in his hand , as his YO behind his eyes at that moment. Then the subject will feel that his hand hurts, but the body memory of proprioception feel that this event has occurred in the vicinity of the observation point and not in the body .If then we ask you to close your eyes and prick again , feel that the stimulus was in his hand and no sense of distances from it.What this experiment tells us all ... ?The Observer , as indicated by the term "observe" is the precise point of receipt of the observed. Then I is the orthocenter to conclude that all perceptions are watching . The fact that our eyes are in front of our brain that , strictly speaking , are an extension of him, lie on the observer within the brain in the upper body , but since there is no body or brain and everything is merely a beam - perceptions , as Hume noted the Observer is ultimately the point of confluence of all perceptions .Then , the " window effect " is not as illusory as we declared at the beginning. We have finished - product of the snake 's tail , which bites the Observer at the end actually see out, but not from the basin of your eyes outwards as indicated by the popularly shared sense but from their point of view Observer to the entire environment , including important part of himself , which builds and justifies to give you that name .

WHAT IS NEUROMETAPHYSICS ?

The Neurometaphysics is a metaphysical approach derived from the description of empirical reality ; relevant to the Philosophy of Mind, featuring neuroscience topics.The working method used in this thesis is , in simple terms , to bring to its logical conclusions offered this scientific discipline.Using this method , we arrive at an extraordinary paradox: if it is true that consciousness occurs within the brain, and that this phenomenon comprises all the perceptions of an individual, means comprising the whole universe can attest that this individual : his heart , his body immediate surroundings , streets, buildings , trees, mountains , animals, people , birds, insects , planets , stars, and even the most distant galaxies captured by a modern telescope. It also includes your thoughts , emotions, memories and imaginings . And further comprises his own body and brain, as they are also perceptions.So my brain is another perception : Where lies the ability to integrate information that supposedly we attribute to the human mind? Where memories are stored ? What are dreams? How do you generate ideas or imagery ? What is the efficient cause of the will, if the acting body and mind are mere perceptions decides ?Even so interesting is these paradoxes that if we really accept that the universe - the reality of every day, each human beings experience , is a phenomenon that occurs in the brain, meaning that the skull would be a metaphysical concept because it would not prove how their existence.Indeed , the efforts made ​​to do, but take even thousands of times higher than the speed of light fastest spacecraft ( if such a thing were possible ) and came to the edge of the universe , would not move an inch towards his skull, and that all that space travel would remain an intracerebral phenomenon and nothing to do or think cloistered in that inner virtual world would allow to prove the existence of his skull.This thesis addresses these paradoxes and proposes how to resolve them , but to do so , it must necessarily make a Copernican turn to the vast majority of working paradigms Science and much of philosophy.The Neurometaphysics involves seeing the world and the human being from a radically new perspective sometimes can be depressing , surprising or frightening , as I have indicated high level reflective people with whom I exchanged ideas about it, but I believe that is the price we must pay if we try to understand the phenomenon of consciousness

WINDOW EFFECT

( A first approximation wrong , but necessary ) .


 The first thing to understand is something curious . We do not see our way out and tend to believe. Visual images are produced in the brain , not outside of the eyes. Eyes only capture light signals that the rods and cones ( eye cells ) transformed into electrical impulses that travel to the brain to construct this image .We think that what we see outside the incredible coordination that we acquire as we grow , including our sense of sight and touch. When we are babies we do not coordinate well with what our brain registers as reality and our hands . As this coordination will refine and our body starts moving around , we acquire , increasingly, a strong link between what visually checked and somatic effect produced .Consequently , we suffer a "window effect " . We believe that our eyes are windows to the outside and when closed , is equivalent to close the window.On the contrary , and I must stress this : we see inward, as if we had a mental screen inside the head. Otherwise, there would be no vivid dreams. In a vivid dream the brain uses its sensory memories tables and recreates an inner reality without need for organ recipients will provide information . [1 ]I allowed this personal appointment, and makes it clear that what is called window effect. I have exemplified the view, as it is our most developed sense and , therefore , the largest maker of illusion that makes us believe that what the observer sees this outside.The great Spanish neuroscientist Francisco Mora explained as follows :

 " ... Neurons in the retina do not copy anything from the outside world , but that detect things that are then sent to the brain for further processing . As Blackmore (1976 ) states: The brain neurons present arguments based on the specific features that detect ( in the outside world ) , these arguments with the brain builds its perception hypothesis " [2 ] .This is an idea on which we must insist : if the observer looks up from this text and walking around the room, can not avoid the conviction that you are sitting at an angle of the room and, as move your head , what you see are the elements of the reality around him.The observer must make an effort to understand what really happens : everything testifies to his vision is occurring inside your brain . If he raises his hands and see, that is also happening inside his brain.If you close your eyes and imagine the scene recalls or just contemplate, have a more accessible meaning that reality is occurring inside and not outside image .
-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------[1 ] Salinas, Nolberto , Journey to Vulcano , Editorial Catalonia , Santiago , Chile, 2011 .[2 ] Mora, Francisco , How the Brain Works , Page 108.

THE HARD PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

WHY NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE CONSCIOUSNESS ?


If we review the literature on Philosophy of Mind , often have titles that give us hope that its contents to resolve the problem of consciousness, such as " Consciousness Explained ", " A History of the Mind ", " The Brain conscious "or " The conscious Mind " .Yet we see that this is , as they say in merchandising - of " misleading " because the authors always warn or conclude that no one knows yet what the ultimate nature of consciousness, or as Chalmers says we run headlong with the difficult problem :


"The hardest part of the mind-body problem is the question : how could a physical system cause conscious experience ? Psychological ... the mind-body problem has dissolved. What remains is the question of why and how these psychological properties are accompanied by phenomenal properties."

In my view , the problem of consciousness has been impossible to solve, because it has been faced from wrong paradigms.The paradigm that I propose , however , requires a caveat: these conceptions remove two powerful foundations of common sense, even , dare I also noted that an important part of common sense, widely accepted in the philosophical field .The first of these foundations to shake , is the objectivity of the world , and the second , the human will.Pretender to challenge such a foundation is not in any case, the original attempt at philosophy , but the element that gives the initiative a degree of novelty is that the proposed approaches debunkers emanate not only reflections or argumentative treatises , but resorts to the empirical evidence that delivers cutting-edge science of our time to establish such refutations .The requirement to build a solid explanation of consciousness, an explanation that actually realize the hard problem involves a thorough review of our concept of reality in the light of current scientific evidence , to join the empiricism of our time recreates and expands that reality.Disciplines that provide such evidence must emphasize , especially to Neuroscience , as are the principles of this novel scientific discipline that has allowed the development of this thesis , and for that reason I have called this new vision NEUROMETAPHYSICS as which , as explained below, is a metaphysical explanation, but from the conceptual framework and empirical evidence offered by neuroscience.