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Precisely. It's the complex system that gives us an illusion of consciousness. At least, that is what I naively believe in since there is a lack of evidence for
by ecmascript 7y ago
Precisely. It's the complex system that gives us an illusion of consciousness. At least, that is what I naively believe in since there is a lack of evidence for anything else.
- goatlover 7y agoSo you think experience is itself an illusion? When you kick a rock and feel pain, you're not really experiencing pain? Is the rock also an illusion?
- dspillett 7y agoI can't speak for the other guy, but from my PoV something being an emergent behaviour doesn't necessarily mean that it is an illusion. Patterns can really exist without being explicitly optimised or programmed for.
- ecmascript 7y agoWell it depends on how you view it. You feel the pain from kicking the rock and remember it, so you won't kick the same rock against a few minutes after. That is an experience to me. An experience is simply a memory of an event/feeling etc. Without any memories, you won't remember any events or feelings and will gladly kick the rock again since you won't have any memory of it hurting you. Or how else would you define an experience? A memory isn't an illusion, there is definitely something physical in your brain that say that that specific event has happened. But you can also remember things that haven't happened, which is probably why a lot of people believe in ghosts, religion etc. I don't know why, but it probably serves a biological purpose and people are probably more likely to survive if they are afraid of things and are careful.