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It's just the activity of the brain when an animal is awake, surely? What's the big mystery?What is it?
How does it work?
I have no idea.
But I know that I am conscious.
And I'm working on the assumption that others are too.
Does anyone actually know?
But how does it work?It's just the activity of the brain when an animal is awake, surely? What's the big mystery?
You're in good company.What is it?
How does it work?
I have no idea.
Nope.But I know that I am conscious.
And I'm working on the assumption that others are too.
Does anyone actually know?
But how does it work?Great question Eddi: would like to provide the thread with what and how in the Websters World Dictionary 1984:
Defines Conscious :
Conscious - : adj. [L. conscius, knowing, aware]
1. Having a feeling or knowledge (of ones own sensations, feelings, etc.or of external things); knowing or feeling (that somthing is or was happening or existing); aware; cognizant
2. able to feel and think; in the normal waking state
3. aware of oneself as a thinking being; knowing what one is doing and why
4. same as self-conscious
5. accompanied by an awareness of what one is thinking, feeling, and doing; intentional (conscious humor)
6. Known to or felt by oneself [Conscious guilt] ~
Syn ~ AWARE - the conscious : Psychol. that part of a personals mental activity of which he is fully aware at any given time: see also unconscious, and preconscious ~~ ~~
But how does me seeing a green light work?because you know you are typing
say you drunk an only doing half of what is fully conscious
make sense?
Do you look at a green light and say stop or Go?
Do you look at a stop light and say looks like it might be green, Go!
But how does it work?
I am currently aware that I am typing on a computer
How does my awareness of that work? Why does it feel like something - and how????
Did you come up with one?Your religion:Simulation Theology, sounds interesting. I once assigned a bonus HW to anyone who would come up with an action that could not be written up as an algorithm. To walk through one day, keeping track of all one's actions, and try to map it all out into an algorithm.
Tracking thoughts, it is interesting.
What is it?
How does it work?
I have no idea.
But I know that I am conscious.
And I'm working on the assumption that others are too.
Does anyone actually know?
In my Advaita Vedanta (non-dual Hindu) philosophy Consciousness is one thing our minds can't get behind to see and understand. An analogy might be the eye trying to see itself.What is it?
How does it work?
I have no idea.
But I know that I am conscious.
And I'm working on the assumption that others are too.
Does anyone actually know?
That is similar to how I see itIn my Advaita Vedanta (non-dual Hindu) philosophy Consciousness is one thing our minds can't get behind to see and understand. An analogy might be the eye trying to see itself.
It appears we are in good company.That is similar to how I see it
I don't think the mind can understand how a mind works
But how does me seeing a green light work?
How does the experience of feeling the quality of greenness work?
How does the feeling of any experience work?
How does experience work?
I don't think it can be explained
In my Advaita Vedanta (non-dual Hindu) philosophy Consciousness is one thing our minds can't get behind to see and understand. An analogy might be the eye trying to see itself.
How does my awareness of that work? Why does it feel like something - and how????
But how does it work?
Practice slowly losing awareness until unconscious, take notes, rinse repeat?
Maybe you will come up with a list of terms.
What is it?
How does it work?
I have no idea.
But I know that I am conscious.
And I'm working on the assumption that others are too.
Does anyone actually know?
It appears we are in good company.
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
Max Planck