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I agree that our subjective experience is an "illusion" (or more accurately, a construct) rather than an accurate representation of our environment. Furthermor
by CuriouslyC 10y ago
I agree that our subjective experience is an "illusion" (or more accurately, a construct) rather than an accurate representation of our environment. Furthermore, this is fairly easy to prove.
On the other hand, if consciousness is the property of having a subjective experience of existence, it is silly to call consciousness an illusion. An illusion is something that appears to exist, but actually does not. The very fact that we are able to perceive the "illusion" contradicts the implication of the statement.
- ThomPete 10y agoNo because the point of calling it an illusion is to say that we are more in the passenger seat looking at our lifes as if we were the one driving the car.
- CuriouslyC 10y agoThen it would be more correct to say that free will is an illusion, which is also debatable but at least not absurd.
- ThomPete 10y agoNot at all. Free will is just one of the "victims" another one is our perception of things being what we experience them as (qualia) or that there is only one way to simulate reality. This then comes back to things like AI where you could ask yourself if there are other forms of feedback loops which could be "conscious" in some form or another.
- eeZah7Ux 10y agoThe illusory aspects are ideas that consciousness is "atomic", constantly present, persistent, flows continuously and we are fully in control of it. Modern neurology proves otherwise.