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The Antenna Argument (Could the brain be an antenna for a yet-to-be-discovered spectrum?) Question : Doesn't a television with an antenna, a microphone, or an infrared telescope show strongly emergent properties?  None of the parts have access to the spectrums they can now observe and yet when put together they gain access to information coming from a completely different plane of reality previously not accessible to their parts.  A television without an antenna is just going to show noise, but with the antenna, it has access to previously inaccessible information, just like a computer with a Wifi antenna.  How do we know that the brain is not accessing a different spectrum than no other machine in the universe can? We don't have to stray away from the existing laws of physics to postulate that the brain is doing something undiscovered when it becomes conscious.  We have difficulty even understanding the most basic life forms, there is still a lot to be understood ab...

Here I will first compare Marry to a computer and the color of red to a program source code, then apply the idea of computational irreducibility to make an argument.   computational irreducibility :  Computations that cannot be sped up by means of any shortcut are called computationally irreducible. The principle of computational irreducibility says that the only way to determine the answer to a computationally irreducible question is to perform, or simulate, the  computation . Main question : What is the missing knowledge of Marry if she has complete knowledge of the color red and also herself? Short answer : The missing knowledge is the computationally irreducible execution of the program red on the system of Marry. Any execution of the program on the original Marry or any simulated Marry inevitably causes an experience of the color for the real or simulated model Marry. Without any version of Marry  necessarily  experiencing it, the knowledge is inaccessible,...