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Already you've sneaked in the presupposition that consciousness is only a result of your brain activity. Have you ever not eaten for two days? Or not slept for
by prometheus76 3y ago
Already you've sneaked in the presupposition that consciousness is only a result of your brain activity. Have you ever not eaten for two days? Or not slept for more than 24 hours? Have you ever had an itch under a cast that you couldn't itch, and been constantly distracted by it? You think that doesn't affect your consciousness?
- kaibee 3y ago> Already you've sneaked in the presupposition that consciousness is only a result of your brain activity. What else could it be? The interesting question is how and why. > Have you ever not eaten for two days? Or not slept for more than 24 hours? Have you ever had an itch under a cast that you couldn't itch, and been constantly distracted by it? Sure, I've done all of those things, but they all cause physical changes in the brain. These physical changes then directly affect your qualia-type experience of reality.
- prometheus76 3y agoHave you read "What is it like to be a bat?" by Thomas Nagel? It's readily available online as a pdf. It discusses the hard problem of consciousness and the mind-body problem that I only briefly and poorly hinted at with my earlier questions. Reductionism doesn't work for consciousness. At all.