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Solid. What’s weird (and to your point) is that many scholars claim that wasn’t really a word for consciousness in Ancient Greek. I mean, maybe pathos or aesth
by dr_dshiv 3y ago
Solid.
What’s weird (and to your point) is that many scholars claim that wasn’t really a word for consciousness in Ancient Greek. I mean, maybe pathos or aesthesis or something, but it is oddly missing. And nous didn’t seem to include core aspects of experience like emotions. Psyche/soup was contested then and now, but I don’t think scholars would consider it to be a good mapping to consciousness/qualia.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoI've had that discussion here too. The responses to the idea that our modern concept of consciousness is relatively[1] recent go like this: > So it seems like the argument is that consciousness didn’t exist because we didn’t have a word for it. I wish we as a community could actually have a conversation about this history of the idea of consciousness, but it's been so well-reified over the last 380+ years that it's a tough rock to loosen and is a load-bearing idea in the public's core belief structure - to our collective detriment. 1. post-enlightenment