RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness
August 24, 2015 at 5:25 pm
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2015 at 5:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Late edit but I gave a couple of my favorites. Understanding consciousness would allow us to better manage a wide range of situations. Consciousness is a matter of awareness and response. Traffic management, law enforcement, education, mental health, cognitive impairment........or just more amusing toys, more comforting blankets......use your imagination (also, presumably, an issue touched upon by consciousness...lol).
Everything we can observe about consciousness strongly suggests that it -is- a "physical example", btw, and so too would be anything designed to interface with it. That something is doing something to something...and the effect presented is called, by us, "consciousness". That we might be able to mix a cocktail of chemical substances, for example, to modify or repair it (or enhance it), as we already do. Better pills, who wouldn't like some better pills, eh?
Everything we can observe about consciousness strongly suggests that it -is- a "physical example", btw, and so too would be anything designed to interface with it. That something is doing something to something...and the effect presented is called, by us, "consciousness". That we might be able to mix a cocktail of chemical substances, for example, to modify or repair it (or enhance it), as we already do. Better pills, who wouldn't like some better pills, eh?
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