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We need to ask the right questions: Why am I experiencing this person right here instead of another person in a different place? What mechanism trigger me to f
by m3kw9 4y ago
We need to ask the right questions: Why am I experiencing this person right here instead of another person in a different place? What mechanism trigger me to feel me? At what point in the conception does consciousness start, or does consciousness contain a range anywhere between 0-1? What is the selection mechanism? Is a mouse as conscious as we are? Or are they less conscious because they don’t ask these questions? Is a cell conscious or just less conscious than a mouse because it is purely reactionary? Is a fetus conscious? Is an embryo conscious? Is the very first neurons from an embryo conscious?
- amatecha 4y ago> Why am I experiencing this person right here instead of another person in a different place? One of my earliest memories was experiencing that question - as I laid in my crib, too young to yet know language. It was terrifying to me and I was so disturbed by the confusion of not knowing why I was who I was, and why I was experiencing things from "my" perspective as opposed to that of another person. Thoughts and questions around that subject have "haunted" me since. Though, I've generally "accepted" that my consciousness and experiential reality is an emergent result of the complex mechanisms of my brain and sensory input, and my sense of self is essentially an "illusion" of sorts. When I die (or am severely incapacitated/maimed), that's all gone. Thus far my experiences in life have supported this stance and made that perspective of mine more solidified. Unfortunately no experiences have worked against that belief thus far.