BINARY STRINGS AND EXTREME DANGER.BINARY STRINGS AND EXTREME DANGER.
Wherever we find an extreme P-conscious experience, we find it related to an information state that can be incorporated to the physical transmission channels. It is clear that the string has both 1) information content accesible to an unconscious or subconscious brain or monitor, and 2) potentiality to evoke the consciousness of danger, either in a more or less conscious-like animal brain or in an instrumented monitor and alarm processor.
Whenever we find an unsual string of bits carrying danger perceptions (i.e., a steam-boiler with extreme high pressure as shown by the manometer, or a big carnivore around as shown by visual signs and auditory noises), this string has both information for a zombie or a zombie-like physical being and potentiality to produce conscious responses for a conscious human being. We can conclude that information theory applied to extreme dangerous situations has this dual potentiality, which shows up whenever the fire or the boiler is the source and a conscious observer is the channel and the target.
So what is the mechanism of consciousness in the particular case of extreme danger? One could conclude that the information string is the key that opens the closed door of P-conscious experience, and at the same time it is information proper.
The string primal aspect appeals to unconscious, subconscious or Ned Block's A-consciousness. The string dual aspect appeals to P-consciousness.
(The basic argument is Chalmers',which omit the incidence of dangers in the picture).
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