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You are thinking about consciousness as it's contents. Drugs or brain damage change its contents, but don't change the presence of consciousness. Therefore that
by sdfin 7y ago
You are thinking about consciousness as it's contents. Drugs or brain damage change its contents, but don't change the presence of consciousness. Therefore that only proves that the contents are physical.
If you consider sleeping or fainting as loss of consciouness, I wouldn't be sure that's the case. Perhaps what happens then is that we lose the perception of the objects of consciousness and we are conscious of a blank state, and as we have no point of reference and nothing to know we mistakenly think that we were 'unconscious', while we were conscious of nothing.
- greiskul 7y agoWhat if you are dead?
- cicero 7y agoYour consciousness separates from the body. https://magiscenter.com/nde/ https://magiscenter.com/nde/
- TimTheTinker 7y agoBut that’s all based on people’s reported perceptions... it’s not a direct observation. It’s not a conclusion from philosophy or religion either. So regardless of what camp you’re in, it doesn’t look reasonable to me to trust stories like that.
- sdfin 7y agoGood point. It may be another case of "consciousness of nothing", as during sleep or maybe before birth.