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Right -- consciousness is whatever it is that is aware that it is self-aware. In fact, anytime you pinpoint consciousness as any particular awareness, you beg t
by gbjw 6y ago
Right -- consciousness is whatever it is that is aware that it is self-aware. In fact, anytime you pinpoint consciousness as any particular awareness, you beg the question. How can you be aware of your awareness?
- ryukafalz 6y agoIf your brain has a computational process for awareness, and it has itself somewhere in the inputs... that’d make you aware of your awareness, no? It’s recursion!
- gbjw 6y agoThe only way to build a recursive loop is to say that awareness is some state (the output of the awareness process). But that just begs the question, how could awareness be a state? If it is a meta-phenomena (i.e., the result of some sort of complexity or self-referential loop) then what exactly is aware that one is aware?