Journal of International Society of Life Information Science
Online ISSN : 2424-0761
Print ISSN : 1341-9226
ISSN-L : 1341-9226
President Lecture
Anti-Copernican Turn : "Self and Others" as an "Anomaly in This Universe"
(President Lecture,The 33rd Symposium on Life information Science)
Tsuneo WATANABE
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2012 Volume 30 Issue 1 Pages 35-36

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In modern science, "scientific" means "objective." However, the objective observation, in other words, the public and repeatable one, is nothing but the observation by anonymous observers. Therefore, a person in the scientific world constructed by anonymous observers is, neither "I" nor "you", but "someone anonymous." That is why the existence of "self and others" is unexpectedly experienced, with a sense of wonder, as an "anomaly in this universe." In this lecture, illustrations of several cases among famous scientists of this kind of experience with a sense of wonder are presented which are drawn from a book I wrote. Analysis of these experiences led me to the discovery of a "harder problem of consciousness." I conclude the lecture with a re-construction of this universe starting from the solipsistic world, that is, the "monad," in which the "self-others structure" is central.
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