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Without awareness/consciousness would anything exist?
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Without awareness/consciousness would anything exist?
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Assuming a cause/result situation, yes; however that raises the question of what causes existence. On the other hand assuming consciousness and matter are part of the same continuum then its either both or neither.Without awareness/consciousness would anything exist?
Is the universe itself conscious?
A virus does not have consciousness either.
Pretty straightforward. :0]yes but you wouldn't be aware/conscious of it
Of course. We are the universe ourselves. Probably others as well.Is the universe itself conscious?
Except when it detects a host.A virus does not have consciousness either.
Yes, the universe would get along fine without conscious organisms to be aware of it. It did so for quite a long time in fact.Without awareness/consciousness would anything exist?
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Yes, the universe would get along fine without conscious organisms to be aware of it. It did so for quite a long time in fact.
I think what we call consciousness is a special, highly developed, case of the awareness of their environment that all organisms have, to some degree, and that it therefore started out at least as part of the toolkit for evolutionary success.Do you think consciousness is simply a tool for survival, a function of evolution? Or does it serve a higher purpose, and if so, what is that purpose?
Further, was consciousness inevitable, from the moment of the big bang?
Do you go *poof* out of existence when you are unconscious?Without awareness/consciousness would anything exist?
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In my Advaita Vedanta philosophy the answer is 'NO'.Without awareness/consciousness would anything exist?
Do you think consciousness is simply a tool for survival, a function of evolution? Or does it serve a higher purpose, and if so, what is that purpose?
Further, was consciousness inevitable, from the moment of the big bang?
I think of consciousness as an evolutionary spandrel: It is a side effect of the processing that is used for survival, but not directly necessary for survival, at least at first.
There doesn't appear to be any 'higher purpose' for consciousness, especially since consciousness appears to be required for there to be a purpose.
I'm not sure how to interpret the term 'inevitable' when it comes to an apparently unique event like the Big Bang.