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Maybe we just experience our brain making decisions. Everything else might be ‘unconscious’. Implying that our conscious experience of the world has no control
by trixie_ 8y ago
Maybe we just experience our brain making decisions. Everything else might be ‘unconscious’.
Implying that our conscious experience of the world has no control over our brains.
Otherwise conscious/unconscious implies some sort of duality in your head. Like the homunculus..
- csomar 8y agoMore like experience a "subset of the environment". We can barely handle more than a few digits at a time, a particularly small square of vision, or a particular song. We can focus our mental effort at really only one thing (the other has to be learned/unconscious so that it can go parallel). I think the question becomes: Why are we conscious in the first place?
- trixie_ 8y agoUnless there is something special going on.. experience seems to be a property of matter itself. Which could mean everything is aware to some extent. People, dogs, rocks, etc.. But because of our big complicated brains that can hold memories and all that - we are aware of being aware.