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>people who aren't brought up being told that consciousness is like having a little homunculus in your head simply never feel "as if" there was one. So you're
by aninhumer 10y ago
>people who aren't brought up being told that consciousness is like having a little homunculus in your head simply never feel "as if" there was one.
So you're saying people brought up differently are p-zombies? Because that's the only way I can interpret that.
Feeling like there's a homonculous is fundamentally what experiencing the world is like for me, and has been since long before I was able to understand complex philosophical questions about conciousness.
- eli_gottlieb 10y ago>So you're saying people brought up differently are p-zombies? No, I'm saying that people brought up differently actually identify our selves with our actual, physical bodies, and don't imagine/visualize a tiny little figurine in our head. We have a different experience of the world, not no experience. To me it seems weirder to say, "When I get bitten by a dog, the little homunculus gets a loud alarm ringing in his little room saying, 'BITTEN BY DOG!'" than "When I get bitten by a dog, its teeth feel sharp and painful."