RE: Consciousness Trilemma
May 29, 2017 at 1:34 pm
(This post was last modified: May 29, 2017 at 1:44 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Consciousness itself, like the contents of conscious experience, appears to us as something that it is not, or cannot be. In this way, just like the contents of conscious experience are illusory, so too is consciousness itself.
What are the conscious and unconscious parts, that we....in your estimation, cannot mistake or misspeak for each other? At what point does the information processing of the brain become the seat of consciousness? A person who holds a view in the spectrum of Dennets would probably tell you that there is no difference between consciousness and information processing. That the one is the other, that there are, therefore...no "conscious and unconscious" parts of the brain. It's an incoherent proposition, in their point of view. In their view, and in the view of nuerology, conscious is and must be distributed. Hence, in their opinion, there can be no humonculus. The way it feels to feel as such, is an illusion...as is the way it feels to feel as such in the present...information processing takes time there can only -be- a post hoc narrative about a "then".
There is no there, in there, and no now. There doesn't seem to be an I in there now, for that matter, not that it -would- matter.
What are the conscious and unconscious parts, that we....in your estimation, cannot mistake or misspeak for each other? At what point does the information processing of the brain become the seat of consciousness? A person who holds a view in the spectrum of Dennets would probably tell you that there is no difference between consciousness and information processing. That the one is the other, that there are, therefore...no "conscious and unconscious" parts of the brain. It's an incoherent proposition, in their point of view. In their view, and in the view of nuerology, conscious is and must be distributed. Hence, in their opinion, there can be no humonculus. The way it feels to feel as such, is an illusion...as is the way it feels to feel as such in the present...information processing takes time there can only -be- a post hoc narrative about a "then".
There is no there, in there, and no now. There doesn't seem to be an I in there now, for that matter, not that it -would- matter.
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