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> Can there be consciousness without content? E.g. can I just be conscious of being conscious? Being conscious of being conscious means that there is content.
by layer8 5mo ago
> Can there be consciousness without content? E.g. can I just be conscious of being conscious?
Being conscious of being conscious means that there is content. You are conscious of something.
It’s a bit like a Gödel statement that quotes itself, that is a statement about itself. It doesn’t mean that it has no content.
Thinking isn’t consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t require thinking, it only requires perception. The perception of a process of perception within the same mind might constitute consciousness.
- runeks 5mo ago> Consciousness doesn’t require thinking, it only requires perception. Could we imagine a human being that is conscious but has no sensory input nor any occurring thoughts but is still conscious?
- Nevermark 5mo agoI don’t think thinking is consciousness, but I don’t see how consciousness operates without thinking. Consciousness might feel like it’s an isolatable experience, but everything we experience is a result of processing it. Pause a brain and it isn’t experiencing anything, We can be conscious without overt reasoning, but not without thinking. Thinking about ourselves and the experience is a basic component of the self-awareness in consciousness.