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The way I look at it, conscious experiences are behavior: the behavior of an information-processing organ that has, in some mysterious but not necessarily magic
by mannykannot 9y ago
The way I look at it, conscious experiences are behavior: the behavior of an information-processing organ that has, in some mysterious but not necessarily magical way, become aware, to some extent, that it is not only an actor in its own model of what its sensory inputs mean, but also that it is a special actor, the one that actually creates the model.
Seeing red may be less mysterious than that - is it anything more than recalling similar sensations, and things (including abstract things like information/language constructs and emotions) that were associated with it?
- Koshkin 9y ago> conscious experiences are behavior Indeed - in the sense of behavior being equated with any kind of physical manifestation (inside or outside the brain). > is it anything more than recalling You are correct: having some form of memory is a prerequisite for consciousness.
- xaedes 9y agoI totally see it your way, that conscious experiences are just (internal) behaviour. But I don't think that conscious experience itself creates the model of itself and the rest. It merely views or recalls or traverses it. It certainly also has some kind of influence. But I like to seperate it from the unconscious rest that happens.