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> we are a cloud of experiences and thoughts and emotions that happens to take one configuration or another based on external "measurements". > There is no tho
by argentinian 4y ago
> we are a cloud of experiences and thoughts and emotions that happens to take one configuration or another based on external "measurements".
> There is no thought or emotion I can have right now that...
I'm confused now. ARE you thoughts and emotions, or do you HAVE thougths and emotions?
> If I strip away the emotions, the thoughts, the perceptions, all I have is a functionless mirror.
Have you done that to be able to reach that conclussion, or is that speculation?
- Sakos 4y ago> Have you done that to be able to reach that conclussion, or is that speculation? It's based on the rest of what I said and by extension my current understanding of cognition and neurobiology.
- argentinian 4y agoWhat is your current understanding about awareness? Can it be like what you call the 'functionless mirror'? What place do you assign to awareness in that equation? I mean, the layering and modifications of thoughts, emotions and perceptions, may occur without awareness, as the functioning of a machine.