Perhaps, consciousness is a process {process theories of mind}. Physical processes are events that transform input to output. Processes involve energy or information and flows or transformations. Processes can be top-down or bottom-up.
algorithm
Processes can be algorithms, such as finding square roots, which take input, transform it, and make output. Iterative algorithms can be slow.
non-algorithmic processes
Brain can use non-algorithmic procedures. Vectors and matrices are containers. Point graphs and edge graphs are container adapters. Matrices and graphs represent tables, polynomials, and object properties. Comparing numbers or strings, sorting, and generating random numbers are direct functions. File manipulations include renaming, moving, copying, and making directories.
circuit
Brains with enough mass and complexity have neural circuits and energy to run them. Circuits are loops that allow continuous flow, which brain can modulate and augment. Circuits can have input and output branches. Circuits can interact. Circuits have different lengths, axon numbers, and synapse numbers.
pathway and flow
Brains with enough mass and complexity have pathways and energy to make flows. Pathways carry different intensities, which brain can modulate and augment. Flows have different speeds. Flows can accumulate or dissipate energy or information, over time and space, in registers or other containers. Pathways have different lengths, axon numbers, and synapse numbers. Pathways can branch.
Perhaps, sense qualities are real properties that cause perception {occurrence, phenomena} {actuality, phenomena}.
Perhaps, experience happens if people think about perception reflexively {thinking, reflexive} {reflexive thinking}.
Perhaps, events observed with sense organs create thoughts {unconscious belief} about perceptual contents, which cause unconscious higher-order recognition or action.
1-Consciousness-Mental Theories
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