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Consciousness Across Three Worldviews
Central concepts in three different domains — Hindu tradition, computer science and quantum physics — find analogies and reflect one another.
TL;DR
- Advaita Vedānta views consciousness as universal, self-luminous pure awareness, non-dual with reality.
- Computational neuroscience often characterizes consciousness as information processing and self-modeling.
- Quantum theory, particularly the relational interpretation, describes systems by their mutual information.
- The term "light" is used analogously across these domains, referring to informational or enlightening roles.
- Semantic information, or "difference that makes a difference," is central to biological and computational systems, akin to Vedānta's "light."
- A unified perspective is achievable by recognizing analogies and structural similarities between these worldviews.