Language doesn’t perfectly describe consciousness. Can Math?
Vijay Balakrishnan
Independent Director| Board Member | C- Level Executive | Thought Leader | Marketing Transformation | Change Management | Ex Tata Consumer Products, Tata Tetley, Airtel, Docomo, Ujjivan and Cambridge International
The power of language, polemics, and the capability of words to sway still need to be understood, or one might even say remain misunderstood.
Questions abound, and uncertainties prevail on whether language can capture fully the depth and richness of our experiences and consciousness.
A spate of seminal development and research across AI, Neurosciences, Psychedelics, Spirituality, and meditation pointed to new directions and thought processes.
Language doesn't perfectly describe emotions, consciousness, and existence the way Math can. Further, math can break the barrier of ineffability, which language might struggle with.
In a fascinating article, Oshan Jarow beautifully propagates all of this and explains the Math of Ineffability.
The supposition gains encouragement from the fact that Mathematical structures can describe more granularly conscious experiences, bringing welcome benefits—this could range from grasping the intensity of pain to the macro spectrum of unbridled pleasure.
He argues that this could "make a whole new range of experimental questions about consciousness tractable, like predicting the level of consciousness in coma patients, which structural ideas like Integrated Information Theory (IIT) are already doing."
All of this is truly enchanting.
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