REM vs Slow-wave Sleep

[Michael McMahon]

If the hard problem of consciousness is at risk of taking another millennium to resolve then we might have to take the nuclear option! According to idealism where the world is only consciousness then in theory the mind could somehow survive a nuclear detonation for an afterlife. So one way to think of slow-wave sleep is like nuclear fusion where each half of the brain shares ideas in one timeline. Then REM sleep might resemble nuclear fission where each half of the brain disentangles from the corpus callosum to form independent ideas in two simultaneous timelines. That way a subsequent slow-wave sleep would merge the ideas formed during REM sleep to recursively knock us further unconscious rather than just the initial slow-wave sleep after trying to lie down in bed awake. An ironic limitation of determinism is that some evil people might not actually want to be forgiven with rehabilitation purposes in such a way that people could have free will to be evil if only to represent the worldview of evil even if they’re still somehow deterministic to others. The mist can be an active reminder of how internal the world might be were the nighttime too passive in blurring objects. So I saw a bit of a pulsating purple beam from eyes if I stared too long in the mist at the top of Croagh Patrick recently as a form of blue field entoptic phenomenon. I joked to my father who climbed with me how the fog can resemble short sightedness as if it were wave-particle duality! 

Edited August 6 by Michael McMahon

[Michael McMahon]

Determinists assume they’re better at determinism than the free will advocates fathoming evil against determinism knowing that the might of the material world can withstand evil! So determinists might risk falling for bait where chaos theory isn’t technically required by time-travelling versions of sleep even if it’s offered as a concession. So when you ponder if your mental decisions can be predicted if God knew the movement of every atom in the universe then surely it’d be much easier to predict the movements of your neurons if you knew the position and charge of every neuron in a brain scan. So when you go to sleep it’s easier for your brain to predict the future of your sleeping brain independent of external stimuli using simple Newtonian mechanics in such a way that you’d actually be less deterministic when you’re awake by receiving chaotic sensory stimuli from the external environment. Yet the inference that you’re actually superdeterministic when you’re asleep and less deterministic when you’re awake could be read as sarcasm if materialism exceeds your mind where the clue is immaterial. 

“So Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion…”

She Nailed It (Final Destination 3 2006)

[zapatos]

I don't remember any of this from when I studied Classical Physics.

[Phi for All]

13 hours ago, Michael McMahon said:

So one way to think of slow-wave sleep is like nuclear fusion where each half of the brain shares ideas in one timeline.

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Moderator Note

If you want to post this again in Speculations, feel free but know that we'll need supporting evidence, not this "one way to think about it" approach. We need more rigor in the mainstream sections. Also this:

 

11 hours ago, Michael McMahon said:

Determinists assume they’re better at determinism than the free will advocates fathoming evil against determinism knowing that the might of the material world can withstand evil! So determinists might risk falling for bait where chaos theory isn’t technically required by time-travelling versions of sleep even if it’s offered as a concession. So when you ponder if your mental decisions can be predicted if God knew the movement of every atom in the universe then surely it’d be much easier to predict the movements of your neurons if you knew the position and charge of every neuron in a brain scan.

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Moderator Note

If you're looping time travel and God and evil into this, you need some extra evidence in support. As is, this can't stay in Classical Physics.