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I like your spin on this, if a bit quirky and strange. Is “consciousness” as a pursuit useless only because we don’t know what it means? Or just a pointless en
by b33j0r 5y ago
I like your spin on this, if a bit quirky and strange.
Is “consciousness” as a pursuit useless only because we don’t know what it means? Or just a pointless endeavor?
- cblconfederate 5y agoconsciousness is a philosophical term, something that belongs to the world of ideas, and our brain is designed to generate ideas regardless of reality. What i find misguided is the various attempts to find a physically measurable quantity of "consciousness", which is like saying we ll find a measurable quantity of "justice". Consciousness has been attributed to the soul, to gods, to some hypothetical physical property, to quantum fluctuations, to nanotubules etc. Unless one has a good definition of consciousness, it can be all of these things or none of them. Until then, it's just a word