RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness
August 26, 2015 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2015 at 2:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
LOL, Whatevs. Nah, we could still be dealing with sentient energy, just that it requires or uses the brain to present itself in the fashion we observe as "human consciousness". Body-as-receiver. Though, that would be troubling for the notion of non-sentient campifires and lightbulbs. Because perhaps it isn't that the campfire energy isn't the same type of energy, sentient energy, it just lacks the proper receiver to present itself in a manner recognizable to us as sentience, consciousness, what have you...but that sort of turns the sentience business back around to being more dependent on the receiver, the brain or body, than the energy itself, at least insofar as we could perceive it - which is all that matters when it comes to proving or demonstrating something. I'm not sure the mind is so easily separated from the body as by using the word "just" - regardless. The brain might "just" be an organ.....but it's doing something pretty damned amazing either way, it's very clearly part of the equation.
The question has been posed before....how does something like alcohol affect "sentient energy"? We can see (and even experience for ourselves) that it does...but whats the hook?
Hey....there's a damn fine experiment we could all do regarding sentience/consciousness, whatever..that we don't need to be nuerosurgeons to perform. Let's get intoxicated.....FOR SCIENCE!!!
The question has been posed before....how does something like alcohol affect "sentient energy"? We can see (and even experience for ourselves) that it does...but whats the hook?
Hey....there's a damn fine experiment we could all do regarding sentience/consciousness, whatever..that we don't need to be nuerosurgeons to perform. Let's get intoxicated.....FOR SCIENCE!!!
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