What it means to know something at very fundamental level? An atom knows about another atom? Knows about itself? Certain energy state gets known to an atom? What gets known? To whom? And what's the point of knowing after all? There is nothing that an atom can know about another atom. The atom has to know itself first. But what an atom should know about itself? Its own state or structure? Can knowing this for an atom make a difference in its state? Else how would atom know it has known something. It must preserve the knowledge about itself in its own state, altering its existing state. If it does then the atom's knowledge about its state goes inconsistent with its own new state which is preserving the knowledge. Contradiction! So puny little atoms can't really know anything? Can they? Who knows then, if not atoms?
How do we remember? Some atomic or sub-atomic nuclear phenomena preserves sounds, images, sensatation, smells, perfumes? What does it mean for a nuclear particle to remember anything? Or a group of nuclear particles? Do they know what they are remembering? Who knows?
1 comment:
Great questions. The only logical conclusion would be that there is more to consciousness than physics. Your questions lead to the inevitable conclusion of the existance of metaphysics.
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