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Awareness doesn’t exactly go away on strong psychedelics. If it did, how’d one be able to make the recollection of strange things happening. There’s some primal
by alfredallan1 8y ago
Awareness doesn’t exactly go away on strong psychedelics. If it did, how’d one be able to make the recollection of strange things happening. There’s some primal level of awareness remanining to observe that the majority of the motor and cognitive functions are impaired. How else would one be able to “remember” that one was indeed “unaware”? Being aware (after the event) of having been unaware (under the influence) indicates there was some lingering awareness remaining.
- goldenkey 8y agoIf any system that retains memory of downsampled inputs has consciousness, then consciousness must be caused by calculation plus memory. This makes a lot of sense.
- alfredallan1 8y agoYes, it makes sense, kinda. What doesn’t make sense is a computer also has calculation + memory. So is the computer conscious? If the answer is yes, then okay, computers are conscious and the only reason they don’t feel pain (etc.) is the lack of appropirate sensors and the lack of programming to process the input from those sensors. If the answer is no, then consciousness must be something separate from both calculation and memory. I think human bias will play a large role in whether one answer yes or no above.