RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness
August 24, 2015 at 9:27 pm
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2015 at 9:28 pm by Whateverist.)
(August 24, 2015 at 9:13 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(August 24, 2015 at 9:01 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: The only one we know for sure that has consciousness is just our self. I naturally and usefully infer that those objects in the world that look like me are also subjects with their own point of view. If someone could unplug me from the world I know a la matrix, then I might realize I'd made some misattributions but it wouldn't be a mind blower on the same level as thinking that I my experience of myself was somehow counterfeit. The existence of illusions does not undermine ourselves as subjects, just the attributions we make regarding the world. Consciousness has more to do with our subject-hood than with what we are as objects.I'm just as sure of your consciousness as I am of my own. A statue or painting might look like you, but they do not -act- like you....so it's a little more than just looking that you base this upon, it's bound up in the doing, isn't it?
I meant "look like" more loosely than just visually. But yes, attribution is bound up in examining the doing. But the basis for the evaluation is all about being, baby.
