Why am I aware?

Discussion in 'General Philosophy' started by just me, Dec 6, 2019.

  1. just me Registered Senior Member

    Messages:
    300
    this is about what consciousness is
     
  2. Google AdSense Guest Advertisement



    to hide all adverts.
  3. Seattle Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    8,857
    What about it?
     
  4. Google AdSense Guest Advertisement



    to hide all adverts.
  5. just me Registered Senior Member

    Messages:
    300
    what it is, and whether anyone can tell me and justify their claim.
     
    Last edited: Dec 6, 2019
  6. Google AdSense Guest Advertisement



    to hide all adverts.
  7. just me Registered Senior Member

    Messages:
    300
    its relevant to my objective that I know this.
     
  8. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

    Messages:
    39,397
    Tell us your thoughts, first.
     
  9. Seattle Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    8,857
    Why should we care?
     
  10. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    18,935
    Indeed. "It's just sciforums for christ sake."
     
  11. wegs Matter and Pixie Dust Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    9,253
    Awareness is overrated. Some days, wish I was unaware.

    Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!

     
  12. sculptor Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    8,466
    what many consider consciousness has to do with the internal dialogue---the use of the conscious mind, --
    When sculpting if I reach a point where the internal dialogue stops, and the conscious mind ceases control, I do my best work
    The same is true for shooting/hunting--better to not think about it, just do it.
    for many things, consciousness seems overrated
     
  13. C C Consular Corps - "the backbone of diplomacy" Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    3,324
    Non-consciousness is easy to define. When you're dead and the brain ceases its functioning everything disappears -- all the manifestations and feelings. The personal thoughts and imaginings and the visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory sensations concerning the immediate world. There is not even a presence and identification of "nothingness" or "silence".

    So simply flip that around to the opposite and you have the biological version of consciousness: Phenomenal evidence of yourself existing as well as an external environment. With language activity (appearing as visual symbols and sounds) describing and facilitating recognition and the understanding of "what's going on".

    However, machines have that experience-less version of interacting with their surroundings as I mentioned here in your other thread. Problem is, without those phenomenal affairs they can't experientially verify that they're engaging in an "invisible" version of awareness. There are "confirming" processes taking place in their systems that guide their behavior and actions, but those are also "invisible" -- without manifested evidence just as their own robot bodies and the world lack such substantiation of their existence in that manner.
     
  14. Seattle Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    8,857
    and some day you are, amiright!

    Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!

     
  15. wegs Matter and Pixie Dust Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    9,253
    We need a dislike feature on SF.
     
  16. Seattle Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    8,857
    No, not that!
     
  17. sideshowbob Sorry, wrong number. Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    7,057
    Some members are not aware of likes.
     
  18. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    7,447
    it is more about you asking everyone else to give their opinion before you post yours.
    but thats ok

    the good thing is you didnt post in the religion area

    Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!


    Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!

     
  19. just me Registered Senior Member

    Messages:
    300
    no reason. but you clearly do because you are replying.
     
  20. just me Registered Senior Member

    Messages:
    300
    sure yea, so that they don't get caught up with telling me how wrong I am and instead post helpful answers.
     
  21. just me Registered Senior Member

    Messages:
    300
    fine, and then tell me how wrong I am instead of posting helpful answers if you all must.

    my thoughts are that it is the same as existence, and that it is situated at some place inside the brain, as some physical thing, rather than an emergent property.

    that's the gist of it.
     
  22. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    7,447
    days wished for not ware
    nude ambivalence Laissez-faire
    nights dreamt of cares undone
    to become
    the other one
    fair thee not for Laissez-faire
    when thoughts are not your underware

    i dig your vibe
    filter aspects tend to garner different responses
    sometimes disinterest
    sometimes it serves your thread better to ignore some responses.
     
  23. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

    Messages:
    39,397
    Consciousness is the same as existence? I don't think so. A rock exists. That is not the same as the rock being conscious, as far as I can tell.

    That sounds a bit vague. What kind of physical thing are you thinking of? A physical "consciousness nugget" separate from the brain tissue? Or perhaps a special section of the brain devoted to processing consciousness? Or what?

    Are you aware that neuroscientists haven't identified any localised site of consciousness in the brain? To me, that suggests that consciousness is a distributed function of the brain, at least.
     

Share This Page