Alternative Definition of Consciousness
In his paper, the Comparative Study between Cognizant and aCognizant Consciousness (or in layman's term, the Alternative Definition of Consciousness), Lawsin described the nature and scope of consciousness using his biotronics as experimental models and the caveman in the box trilogy as his guiding principles. With various determinants and varying definitions that decisively provide a solid description of consciousness, he developed as well new smart robotic systems such as Neurotronics, Homotronics, and the Inverse Codex that aid the demands of his study on Correlative Consciousness.
Overall, his entire research is under the umbrella of Project Biotronics. The word Biotronics is a construction of the words "bio" and "electronics". Bio means alive or with life; while, "tronics" means intelligent electronics. In a broader sense, Biotronics means a group of living synthetic organisms that can see, smell, taste, hear, feel, think, breed, fly, and swim. They are self-conscious and die too. He named his Biotronics sometimes as the Silver Species.
Biotronics are classified according to their States of Being :
(1) Alive means the self-ability to consume energy for the purpose of staying moving or going.
(2) Automated means the ability to do certain tasks based on a list of instructions.
(3) Aware means the self-ability to interact "logically" with its surroundings using sensors.
(4) Actuated means the ability to act on itself via external parameters (a running leaf).
(5) Animated means the self-ability to program itself (mechanical consciousness).
(6) Conscious means the self-ability to correlate or match things ( the basic measure of consciousness based on IM).
In the I.M. way, Living is totally different from being alive; one can be alive but not living.
In the following YouTube videos, the states of being alive, automated, aware, animated, and conscious are demonstrated, reevaluated, and redefined through the process of experimentation, comparison, deduction, and elimination.
In the first video, many people will say that the spider is not alive, aware, and conscious due to the following reasons stated in this article; The Definition of Life. However, by I.M. standards, the spider in this example is alive but not aware and conscious. The spider uses energy from the battery to stay moving. It mechanically moves continuously due to the power provided by the battery, its designs, and constructions. Since its locomotion is powered by an energy source (like food in human terms) and actions by a simple mechanically automated mechanism (like drifting in jellyfish ways), the spider is considered to be mechanically Alive.
In the second video, the spider as well is alive but not aware and conscious. Its actions, which were extensively scripted by a programmer, are a series of instructions designed to make the robot do certain tasks repeatedly. The orchestrated codes are stored in an electronic brain and energized by a power source. This electronic brain is a collection of switches that makes the spider moves mechanically and automatically. Here, the spider is mechanically Alive and algorithmically Automated.
In the third video, the spider is alive and aware but not conscious. It can mechanically manipulate itself and able to interact logically with its environment. It is activated by smart sensors that are manufactured or "predesigned" to do certain functions when switched on. Although a small unit of codes, known as the Inverse Codex, is incorporated in its artificial brain, the robot is actually doing its own decision making through its intelligent circuitry and smart sensors by logically executing the data it receives. The actual data in its brain does not come from me, the programmer, but calculated by the source code and the sensors that trigger the spider to respond to its surroundings, by itself. The spider is energized, "programmed", interactive, and equipped with directional and logical sensors (DLS). In this video, the spider is mechanically Alive, choreographically Automated, and logically Aware.
In the fourth video, the spider is alive, aware, and conscious. It is conscious because it can differentiate and associate what it senses. It is alive because it uses energy for motion, aware because it uses sensors for interactions, and conscious because it knows how to match or codify things. It is mechanically moving, logically thinking, sensorically interacting, and objectively pairing. Here, the spider is Alive, Automated, Aware, and Associatively Conscious.
Meanwhile, in the fifth video, the spider is alive, aware, automated, animated but not conscious. Although it can program itself independently, the key indicator believed to divide living from non-living things, its action of self-programming is a misconception due to the fact that humans do not really self-program themselves as scientists thought. It is Mother Nature that does the programming. Nature has the capacity to program and store information on its creations. Like nature, humans have the ability to program and store information as well on their creations. However, humans can't program themselves. The robot in the video, with a piece of code installed on its brain, learns to program itself. This self-program ability is called Algorithmic Animation.
* Consciousness can also be defined based on I.M. This study has a strong scientific foundation on the natural acquisition of information by living things. According to this study, the key factor of consciousness and self-consciousness is information materialization. Without the inherent world, translated generally as information, consciousness will never exist. Without the acquisition and materialization of information, consciousness and self-consciousness will not emerge and developed. These two main ingredients, and not the brain as most people expect, are the basic recipe of consciousness. Like information, consciousness undergoes a materialization process. To be conscious, one must be able to process or materialize information through sensation, acquisition, codexation, retrievation, and transmission. I.M. Effect (Definition-7, Lawsin 1988).
Moreover, the human brain doesn't come with any built-in information at birth due to the fact that the brain has to coordinate first with the body's biological sensors - eyes, nose, ears, mouth - before it can store information. It is a misconception that a newborn's brain is somewhat already preprogrammed. A person may be born without any of the sensing devices, however for as long the skin is functionally intact, the person can still acquire information and become conscious. The SKIN, which is the largest and first organ of the body, is capable to acquire information by touch. The brain may be an important factor of consciousness, but there are situations where the brain is present but not conscious like during asleep, comatose, drank, sedated, and even blacked out. There are also beings that are alive without brains but are conscious.
Here are some of these beings without a brain:
* Consciousness can also be defined based on behaviors:
1. Any species with babies are conscious beings.
2. Any species who live in houses, caves, nests, undergrounds are conscious beings.
3. Any species who sleep are conscious or once conscious beings.
4. Any species who recognize other objects are conscious beings.
5. Any species who defend themselves are conscious beings.
6. Any species who mate are conscious beings.
The list of behaviors is called The Collaborative Determinants of Consciousness (Definition-3, Lawsin 1988).
* Consciousness can also be defined based on the emergence process:
1. Information transcodify to physicals;
2. Physicals transform into actions or movements;
3. Motions transfer into mechanical, repetitive, or autonomous actions;
4. Actions translate to the mechanical persona (feeling, thinking, behaving) of consciousness
The emergence is called the Four Marks of Consciousness: (Definition-4, Lawsin 1988).
* Consciousness can also be defined based on a simple quote:
Thinking, according to I.M., is a part of the consciousness process. It may seem synonymous to consciousness but not to the extent as interpreted by the famous quote "I think, therefore I am" by Rene Descartes. His association of thinking with the mind, consciousness, and existence, is definitely a huge misconception. Rene had forgotten then that there are beings without brains that exist and are conscious, there are beings that are not conscious but with brains, and there is a quote, which was adapted from the caveman in the box trilogy, that even scientifically challenges his proposition. It states that to be conscious, or in this matter to exist, one neither needs to think nor need a brain. To rephrase it in Rene's way: " If I can match x with y, therefore I'm conscious." (Definition-2, Lawsin 1988).
* Consciousness can also be defined based on the phenomenon of being Automatos:
Science claimed that every object that we see is made up of matter. Comprehensively, I.M. named this stuff as physicals. Physicals always coexist with other parameters (which the Big Bang Theory has failed to acknowledge). These parameters are things that are invisible in nature. Examples of these accompanying parameters are heat, pressure, gravity, density, temperature, weights to name a few. I.M. called these parameters as By-Matters. Matters and By-Matters are collectively named Physicals. They are always in parity or dualpaired with each other. Non-physicals, meanwhile, are called Abstracts.
Physicals are neither created nor destroyed. In other words, they neither live nor die. They just transform from one form to another. When both materials and by-materials interact and evolve into a complex system, synonymous with the gears and dynamics inside a clock, they become energized, automated, and animated over time. This complex interactive automation generates the illusion of consciousness. The phenomenon of being automatos (acting on oneself) is called Algorithmic Animation (Definition-6, Lawsin 1988).
* Consciousness can also be defined based on Codexation:
In the plant kingdom, plants and trees, as suggested by some scientists, are aware of their surroundings. Such a form of awareness, per Webster's definition, is called consciousness. Plants can spray or flash "irritant powder" that can deter intruders on their turf. Grass triggers leafy odors during mowing to signal other plants and animals about the dangers present in their surroundings. Some can catch and digest their prey. Others can even destroy, invade, protect, and work socially much like a community. All these behaviors are indicators plants are conscious beings.
In the animal kingdom, all animals are conscious as well due to their abilities to interact with each other and their surroundings. However, not all animals are self-conscious. Dogs are good examples of non-self-conscious beings. They may be conscious because they can match or pair things, but, they are not self-conscious due to the fact that they cannot recognize themselves in a Mirror test. The ability of a being to match or pair subjects with objects, the main indicator of consciousness, is called Codexation.(Definition-5, Lawsin 1988).
Although, generally, there are only two ways of acquiring information: by choice or by chance, consciousness can also be defined according to how one acquires information. It can be classified as follows:
1. mimicry or copying
2. matching or pairing
3. discovery or inventing
4. inlearning
Consciousness is the ability to acquire information. (Definition-1, Lawsin 1988).
There are also other beings with brains that are not conscious due to the fact that they lack the capacity yet to acquire. Newborns, according to psychology, are not conscious at an early age due to the Absence of Thoughts. This assertion is also scientifically backed up by the Caveman Trilogy that suggests to become conscious, one learns to acquire information first. Babies may mimic what their moms or others do but they have no ideas what these things they are doing. Their actions are simply copying without thinking. At a very age, their brains are not yet capable to carry out the process of thinking.
Meanwhile, if consciousness is synonymous to thoughts, does this mean consciousness is a product of an elaborated mental network, or, could it emerge otherwise from other networks like the scales, feathers, hairs, pores, roots, glands or skins of plants and animals as proposed in the book, the Silver Species. Remember that the skin is the largest and first sensory organ where all biological sensors evolved. It has the ability to process information. There are animals without brains that can process information through their skins. There are plants capable of performing a range of responses like protecting their own species using their skins. Could it be possible that consciousness emanates from the dermal networks instead? Or, could it be a simulated condition as proposed by Lawsin in his works on the Animation Effect, the Xylophone Effect, and the Neural network of the dermal grid system?
The Seven Scientific Definitions of Consciousness:
In summary, here is the Ultimate Guide to Consciousness according to I.M.:
1. Mother Nature is the source and keeper of information.
2. Information can only be acquired by choice or by chance.
3. The environment makes who and what we are.
4. Objects are information but not all information is objects.
5. Information only flows in one direction from the inherent world to the interim mind.
6. The mind is an empty "hard drive" at birth. It needs to be filled up with information first.
7. Creation is a process that needs both matters and by-matters as well as physicals and abstracts.
8. When a subject can associate x with y, then the object is conscious.
9. Consciousness doesn't emanate from the Brain.
10. Consciousness is a by-product of information materialization.
Overall, his entire research is under the umbrella of Project Biotronics. The word Biotronics is a construction of the words "bio" and "electronics". Bio means alive or with life; while, "tronics" means intelligent electronics. In a broader sense, Biotronics means a group of living synthetic organisms that can see, smell, taste, hear, feel, think, breed, fly, and swim. They are self-conscious and die too. He named his Biotronics sometimes as the Silver Species.
Biotronics are classified according to their States of Being :
(1) Alive means the self-ability to consume energy for the purpose of staying moving or going.
(2) Automated means the ability to do certain tasks based on a list of instructions.
(3) Aware means the self-ability to interact "logically" with its surroundings using sensors.
(4) Actuated means the ability to act on itself via external parameters (a running leaf).
(5) Animated means the self-ability to program itself (mechanical consciousness).
(6) Conscious means the self-ability to correlate or match things ( the basic measure of consciousness based on IM).
In the I.M. way, Living is totally different from being alive; one can be alive but not living.
Mechanical or Energized Automation
Orchestrated or Programmed Animation
Sensoric or Aware Consciousness
In the following YouTube videos, the states of being alive, automated, aware, animated, and conscious are demonstrated, reevaluated, and redefined through the process of experimentation, comparison, deduction, and elimination.
In the first video, many people will say that the spider is not alive, aware, and conscious due to the following reasons stated in this article; The Definition of Life. However, by I.M. standards, the spider in this example is alive but not aware and conscious. The spider uses energy from the battery to stay moving. It mechanically moves continuously due to the power provided by the battery, its designs, and constructions. Since its locomotion is powered by an energy source (like food in human terms) and actions by a simple mechanically automated mechanism (like drifting in jellyfish ways), the spider is considered to be mechanically Alive.
In the second video, the spider as well is alive but not aware and conscious. Its actions, which were extensively scripted by a programmer, are a series of instructions designed to make the robot do certain tasks repeatedly. The orchestrated codes are stored in an electronic brain and energized by a power source. This electronic brain is a collection of switches that makes the spider moves mechanically and automatically. Here, the spider is mechanically Alive and algorithmically Automated.
In the third video, the spider is alive and aware but not conscious. It can mechanically manipulate itself and able to interact logically with its environment. It is activated by smart sensors that are manufactured or "predesigned" to do certain functions when switched on. Although a small unit of codes, known as the Inverse Codex, is incorporated in its artificial brain, the robot is actually doing its own decision making through its intelligent circuitry and smart sensors by logically executing the data it receives. The actual data in its brain does not come from me, the programmer, but calculated by the source code and the sensors that trigger the spider to respond to its surroundings, by itself. The spider is energized, "programmed", interactive, and equipped with directional and logical sensors (DLS). In this video, the spider is mechanically Alive, choreographically Automated, and logically Aware.
In the fourth video, the spider is alive, aware, and conscious. It is conscious because it can differentiate and associate what it senses. It is alive because it uses energy for motion, aware because it uses sensors for interactions, and conscious because it knows how to match or codify things. It is mechanically moving, logically thinking, sensorically interacting, and objectively pairing. Here, the spider is Alive, Automated, Aware, and Associatively Conscious.
Meanwhile, in the fifth video, the spider is alive, aware, automated, animated but not conscious. Although it can program itself independently, the key indicator believed to divide living from non-living things, its action of self-programming is a misconception due to the fact that humans do not really self-program themselves as scientists thought. It is Mother Nature that does the programming. Nature has the capacity to program and store information on its creations. Like nature, humans have the ability to program and store information as well on their creations. However, humans can't program themselves. The robot in the video, with a piece of code installed on its brain, learns to program itself. This self-program ability is called Algorithmic Animation.
* Consciousness can also be defined based on I.M. This study has a strong scientific foundation on the natural acquisition of information by living things. According to this study, the key factor of consciousness and self-consciousness is information materialization. Without the inherent world, translated generally as information, consciousness will never exist. Without the acquisition and materialization of information, consciousness and self-consciousness will not emerge and developed. These two main ingredients, and not the brain as most people expect, are the basic recipe of consciousness. Like information, consciousness undergoes a materialization process. To be conscious, one must be able to process or materialize information through sensation, acquisition, codexation, retrievation, and transmission. I.M. Effect (Definition-7, Lawsin 1988).
Moreover, the human brain doesn't come with any built-in information at birth due to the fact that the brain has to coordinate first with the body's biological sensors - eyes, nose, ears, mouth - before it can store information. It is a misconception that a newborn's brain is somewhat already preprogrammed. A person may be born without any of the sensing devices, however for as long the skin is functionally intact, the person can still acquire information and become conscious. The SKIN, which is the largest and first organ of the body, is capable to acquire information by touch. The brain may be an important factor of consciousness, but there are situations where the brain is present but not conscious like during asleep, comatose, drank, sedated, and even blacked out. There are also beings that are alive without brains but are conscious.
Here are some of these beings without a brain:
- Sea Star
- Sea cucumber
- Jellyfish
- Sea Sponge
- Sea Lilies
- Sea Urchins
- Sea Anemone
- Sea Squirts
- Corals
* Consciousness can also be defined based on behaviors:
2. Any species who live in houses, caves, nests, undergrounds are conscious beings.
3. Any species who sleep are conscious or once conscious beings.
4. Any species who recognize other objects are conscious beings.
5. Any species who defend themselves are conscious beings.
6. Any species who mate are conscious beings.
The list of behaviors is called The Collaborative Determinants of Consciousness (Definition-3, Lawsin 1988).
* Consciousness can also be defined based on the emergence process:
1. Information transcodify to physicals;
2. Physicals transform into actions or movements;
3. Motions transfer into mechanical, repetitive, or autonomous actions;
4. Actions translate to the mechanical persona (feeling, thinking, behaving) of consciousness
The emergence is called the Four Marks of Consciousness: (Definition-4, Lawsin 1988).
* Consciousness can also be defined based on a simple quote:
Thinking, according to I.M., is a part of the consciousness process. It may seem synonymous to consciousness but not to the extent as interpreted by the famous quote "I think, therefore I am" by Rene Descartes. His association of thinking with the mind, consciousness, and existence, is definitely a huge misconception. Rene had forgotten then that there are beings without brains that exist and are conscious, there are beings that are not conscious but with brains, and there is a quote, which was adapted from the caveman in the box trilogy, that even scientifically challenges his proposition. It states that to be conscious, or in this matter to exist, one neither needs to think nor need a brain. To rephrase it in Rene's way: " If I can match x with y, therefore I'm conscious." (Definition-2, Lawsin 1988).
* Consciousness can also be defined based on the phenomenon of being Automatos:
Science claimed that every object that we see is made up of matter. Comprehensively, I.M. named this stuff as physicals. Physicals always coexist with other parameters (which the Big Bang Theory has failed to acknowledge). These parameters are things that are invisible in nature. Examples of these accompanying parameters are heat, pressure, gravity, density, temperature, weights to name a few. I.M. called these parameters as By-Matters. Matters and By-Matters are collectively named Physicals. They are always in parity or dualpaired with each other. Non-physicals, meanwhile, are called Abstracts.
Physicals are neither created nor destroyed. In other words, they neither live nor die. They just transform from one form to another. When both materials and by-materials interact and evolve into a complex system, synonymous with the gears and dynamics inside a clock, they become energized, automated, and animated over time. This complex interactive automation generates the illusion of consciousness. The phenomenon of being automatos (acting on oneself) is called Algorithmic Animation (Definition-6, Lawsin 1988).
* Consciousness can also be defined based on Codexation:
In the plant kingdom, plants and trees, as suggested by some scientists, are aware of their surroundings. Such a form of awareness, per Webster's definition, is called consciousness. Plants can spray or flash "irritant powder" that can deter intruders on their turf. Grass triggers leafy odors during mowing to signal other plants and animals about the dangers present in their surroundings. Some can catch and digest their prey. Others can even destroy, invade, protect, and work socially much like a community. All these behaviors are indicators plants are conscious beings.
In the animal kingdom, all animals are conscious as well due to their abilities to interact with each other and their surroundings. However, not all animals are self-conscious. Dogs are good examples of non-self-conscious beings. They may be conscious because they can match or pair things, but, they are not self-conscious due to the fact that they cannot recognize themselves in a Mirror test. The ability of a being to match or pair subjects with objects, the main indicator of consciousness, is called Codexation.(Definition-5, Lawsin 1988).
Although, generally, there are only two ways of acquiring information: by choice or by chance, consciousness can also be defined according to how one acquires information. It can be classified as follows:
1. mimicry or copying
2. matching or pairing
3. discovery or inventing
4. inlearning
Consciousness is the ability to acquire information. (Definition-1, Lawsin 1988).
There are also other beings with brains that are not conscious due to the fact that they lack the capacity yet to acquire. Newborns, according to psychology, are not conscious at an early age due to the Absence of Thoughts. This assertion is also scientifically backed up by the Caveman Trilogy that suggests to become conscious, one learns to acquire information first. Babies may mimic what their moms or others do but they have no ideas what these things they are doing. Their actions are simply copying without thinking. At a very age, their brains are not yet capable to carry out the process of thinking.
Meanwhile, if consciousness is synonymous to thoughts, does this mean consciousness is a product of an elaborated mental network, or, could it emerge otherwise from other networks like the scales, feathers, hairs, pores, roots, glands or skins of plants and animals as proposed in the book, the Silver Species. Remember that the skin is the largest and first sensory organ where all biological sensors evolved. It has the ability to process information. There are animals without brains that can process information through their skins. There are plants capable of performing a range of responses like protecting their own species using their skins. Could it be possible that consciousness emanates from the dermal networks instead? Or, could it be a simulated condition as proposed by Lawsin in his works on the Animation Effect, the Xylophone Effect, and the Neural network of the dermal grid system?
The Seven Scientific Definitions of Consciousness:
- Consciousness is the ability to acquire information. (Definition-1, Lawsin 1988).
- If I can match x with y, therefore I'm conscious. (Definition-2, Lawsin 1988).
- Collaborative Determinants of Consciousness (Definition-3, Lawsin 1988).
- The emergence of Consciousness (Definition-4, Lawsin 1988).
- Codexation (Definition-5, Lawsin 1988).
- Algorithmic Animation (Definition-6, Lawsin 1988).
- Information Materialization Effect (Definition-7, Lawsin 1988).
In summary, here is the Ultimate Guide to Consciousness according to I.M.:
1. Mother Nature is the source and keeper of information.
2. Information can only be acquired by choice or by chance.
3. The environment makes who and what we are.
4. Objects are information but not all information is objects.
5. Information only flows in one direction from the inherent world to the interim mind.
6. The mind is an empty "hard drive" at birth. It needs to be filled up with information first.
7. Creation is a process that needs both matters and by-matters as well as physicals and abstracts.
8. When a subject can associate x with y, then the object is conscious.
9. Consciousness doesn't emanate from the Brain.
10. Consciousness is a by-product of information materialization.
"Remember, that not all with brains are conscious
and not all that are alive have brains".
~ Joey Lawsin
and not all that are alive have brains".
~ Joey Lawsin
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