[Nebulous Neura]

Like the keeper of this forum, my background is working with computers and I read about physics, neuroscience, cosmology, complex adaptive systems, chaos theory, and other related books in my spare time. As many of you, I am here because I am curious and have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. I do not feel that my thoughts and inquiries are null simply because I do not hold a Ph.D. I hope that most of you agree.

Now to the purpose of this post in this forum... As I continue to read about recent discoveries in neurophysiology, I am even more intrigued about the physics of consciousness. I would like to discuss ideas and theories about the physical characteristics exhibited in a conscious mind and how resulting behaviours can possibly be emulated within non-organic structures.

One book that I found particularly interesting is "Going Inside - A tour round a single moment of consciousness" by John McCrone. If anyone else here has read that book, I would like to compare notes. I believe consciousness CAN be explained mathematically and would enjoy intellectual conversation with others that share an interest in pursuit of this elusive formula. Binary based silicon processors may or may not be an acceptable platform for consciousness. In the realm of mathematics, one does not have to implement the solution, but merely prove that an implementation is possible. The human brain and nervous system is proof that one implementation of consciousness is possible, but is it the only configuration of matter that can be self-aware? There must be others, and if there are, then it should be possible to prove mathematically.