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Re: What is Consciousness? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #8095065 - 03/02/08 08:00 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

The most commonsensical, unquestioned, half-formed notion of "consciousness" seems to define it as an invisible, unmeasurable, undetectable aspect of the universe possessed by certain entities and not others.

If we greatly enlarged our brains and took tours within, we would find mechanism and flesh--a world conforming strictly to physical law. Would you find "consciousness" present?

Consciousness is a reified concept that lacks a clear-cut, indisputable referent. There is simply no object that can be called "consciousness"; ants respond to heat, hence they are "conscious"; bats use sonar to navigate in the air, hence they are "conscious"; humans are able to nimbly respond to external stimuli, hence they are "conscious"; but what is consciousness? It's an entire bundle of decentralized processes--such as sensory-information processing, computational decision-making, et cetera.

Let us suppose a student is visiting a nearby university. The student is given a tour that shows the library, the labs, the sports arena, and so on. But then the student may very well ask the tour guide, "But where is the university?" I can observe goal-directed behavior, adaptive responses to environment, and neurological processes--but where is consciousness? :wink:


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Re: What is Consciousness? [Re: Neanderthal]
    #8095102 - 03/02/08 08:11 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

good post and welcome :thumbup:


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Re: What is Consciousness? [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #8095133 - 03/02/08 08:20 PM (15 years, 10 months ago)

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AlteredAgain said:
good post and welcome :thumbup:




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