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A typical way to articulate it is that the experience of consciousness is just another sense-perception, not the "center of you". In the same way that your sens
by acidbaseextract 6y ago
A typical way to articulate it is that the experience of consciousness is just another sense-perception, not the "center of you". In the same way that your sense for certain types of light is called sight, your sense for certain types of neural activity is consciousness.
- ehnto 6y agoBut does it have to be anything else? That insight doesn't actually change the discussion or what we are trying to describe I don't think.
- imtringued 6y agoWe have consciousness because our brain tells us we do. Establishing anything beyond this is futile. Consciousness sounds like an extremely beneficial evolutionary trait to me. Imagine an "unconscious human" who shares the same body as us but the brain thinks it can't think, thinks it is dead, thinks that nothing it senses is alive or real including itself and its own thoughts. That unconscious human can definitively exist as an organism but it would have a hard time to coexist in a community of humans. Please don't nitpick the usage of the word "think" because I'm referring to "machine style" thinking. A computer can think without being conscious.