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I don't think they are referring to the phenomenon of consciousness, rather than the experience of consciousness itself.
by MrScruff 14y ago
I don't think they are referring to the phenomenon of consciousness, rather than the experience of consciousness itself.
- thirdtruck 14y agoWhere does that demarcation line fall? Is there anything to consciousness besides the experiential phenomenon? To illustrate: there is no such thing as the movie "It's a Wonderful Life", just a series of individual frames that our eyes and brains perceive as a whole unit only because of perceptual and cognitive limitations (basically, compression). We know far less of anything beyond the present moment - speaking of individual experience - than most believe. I posit that "consciousness" exists as nothing more than a cognitive compression artifact.
- MrScruff 14y agoDo you regard the subjective experience of being concious as a something that can be adequately described by detailing neurological processes? As in, I know you might argue that a specific combination of atoms will correspond to a specific mental state. That doesn't really tell you anything about the subjective experience of being in that mental state though.