Consciousness
Our world is a shared experience, diversified by individual perspectives.
How do we (atheists) define it?
How do philosophers define it?
How do scientists define it?
How do theologians define it?
How do others, and history and myth define it?
How do YOU, personally define it?
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Consciousness 7 years, 9 months agoTwo relevant discussions below by John Searle, who has a talent for speaking plainly in terms laypersons can understand.
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The best JS I’ve seen, so far, albeit I’ve found most of them enlightening. I like the foundaton it lays for scientific discussion. (Only 9 minutes long!)
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Consciousness 7 years, 9 months ago-
Oh wow…another youtube video by someone who confirms what you’ve already thought and a philosopher who hasn’t written anything moderately new on the topic in 30 years. Yeay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Consciousness 7 years, 9 months agoDoes consciousness have a use? (a USE, not a purpose.)
An analogy: a hammer has a use, to drive nails. Without nails, would hammers exist? I think not, so I would start with Does consciousness has a use?-
Does self-amusement count?
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Go out on a limb, pb, and answer it y’self.
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I will. When needed, we always have time to think and wind up a position or two, mate. 🙂
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As I currently think of consciousness as an “emergent” character, I’m not sure how precisely to answer that, other than to say that ALL brain processes result from evolutionary tuning. How those processes together are “used” is most probably understood insofar as to how they enhance individual survivabilty, and species survivability, including…[Read more]
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Any use that results in a being’s wanting to put the consciousness to that same use again would have evolutionary value.
Does self-amusement count? Does it have a number system: 1, 2, 3, …, n?-
Humor in general seems to be useful in a social environment. Maybe self-amusement stems from that and is useful just like an in-mind rehearsal before taking it public.
Specifically, when it comes to laughter, it seems to be a way to communicate that one is thinking of or experiencing something that is expected to be “very interesting, if not fun”…[Read more]
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Consciousness 7 years, 9 months ago(Don’t forget, to see a list of topics or start a new one, first click on the Forum button, above.)
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Consciousness 7 years, 9 months agoThis is not yet a hard science like physics, or astronomy. We can speculate, state opinions, share our emotions and feelings, or share “scientific” discoveries to whatever extent we wish.
I personally believe that consciousness cannot be described as an all or nothing thing, but only as a spectrum of possible experiences, which sometimes can be…[Read more]
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