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Do we even have consciousness or merely the illusion of it?
by mgaunard 3y ago
Do we even have consciousness or merely the illusion of it?
- operatingthetan 3y agoI'm not sure what the illusion of it would even mean. A known true statement for me would be "I appear to be experiencing something."
- kouru225 3y agoI don’t think it makes sense to ask this question without rigorously defining what we mean when we say “consciousness.”
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- anon84873628 3y agoCall it qualia, or "having experience", or "what our mind does" -- that is subjectively real. Perhaps especially so because of our ability to notice and reflect on the fact. But that doesn't mean we actually have free will, or aren't automata. Most of the time we are lulled into the "illusion" that we do, to some extent.