The Centrality of information (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, June 23, 2014, 23:04 (3594 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: Your first cause is conscious energy which makes matter and is within all matter; in my hypothesis, energy makes matter and becomes conscious both of and within the matter it has made. In both hypotheses, the source of consciousness is energy (immaterial), not matter, and so the material brain is not the producer of thought but the receiver, which opens the door to psychic experiences and even the possibility of life after death.-
 You have taken a side turn to my intent in the discussion. Your statement above summarized that aspect of the debate, but my point is still the same. If we cannot define consciousness and conscious minds create information and impart it into codes, where did the information, that runs and controls the processes of life, come from? How did it evolve in the evolutionary process, or is it posible it was in the first living cells? They were certainly complex enough to require lots of underlying information.