RE: Mind is the brain?
March 17, 2016 at 12:25 am
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2016 at 12:33 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 16, 2016 at 1:27 am)IATIA Wrote:(March 15, 2016 at 1:07 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Wrong. A conscious person is aware of things, an unconscious person isn't.
Do you know that for a fact? The way general anesthesia works is that it immobilizes the body but they are aware and just do not remember.
I didn't say anything about their mobility, or lack thereof. Indeed, with my first sentence, I discarded the idea that consciousness is connected with mobility at all. In other words, a conscious person may or may not be immobile, and an immobile person may or may not be conscious.
The answer I was responding to was the claim that "One moves around more and says stuff."
Physical activity is not the standard for consciousness. By that standard, falling rocks are more aware than rocks at rest.
It should also be noted that speech is not a metric for consciousness. Tape recordings of speech aren't conscious.
Bottom line, BB's reply was facetious, of course, but I was simply operating with the definition of "consciousness" you'll find in dictionaries.