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> To me, consciousness is the collection of electrochemical signals traveling throughout the brain This is unfortunately not a definition of consciousness, rat
by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
> To me, consciousness is the collection of electrochemical signals traveling throughout the brain
This is unfortunately not a definition of consciousness, rather an hypothesis about the cause or origin of it. Consciousness is an experience, as you mention in your next sentence:
> I also believe in brains that have more than one consciousness, as I've personally experienced a similar thing before
This is what makes it so tricky. My only definition of consciousness is pretty much "I know it when I see it", with the annoying caveat that I cannot see any other experience than my own...
- ChainOfFools 3y agoI've always used the analogy when thinking about this, or at least when discussing it casually with others, that trying to comprehend the experience of consciousness from within it, is perhaps inaccessible due to some presently unnoticed principle of reflection of recursion in thought, analogous in a physical sense to trying to lift yourself up by your own shirt collar.