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Self referential loops in the brain may indeed be the mechanism for our sense of self awareness but to go on and say this makes consciousness any less mysteriou
by raw23 9y ago
Self referential loops in the brain may indeed be the mechanism for our sense of self awareness but to go on and say this makes consciousness any less mysterious is a non-sequitur.
How would any combination of neurons and interconnections between the neurons (feedback loops or not) explain the emergence of a subjective first person experience i.e. consciousness
This might be a confusion of words and not reality. If you define consciousness as self awareness then we are talking about two different things.
- kainolophobia 9y agoWhat do you imagine as the difference between consciousness and self-awareness?
- stupidcar 9y agoMy point is exactly that a subjective first-person experience is self awareness. The root of all conscious experience is an awareness of own awareness, a sense of our own senses, the difference between them, etc. I would challenge anyone to come up with a definition of conscious experience that does not, ultimately, boil down to a form of self-referential sensory input.