(May 30, 2017 at 8:45 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(May 30, 2017 at 8:38 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Your consciousness as described, in the view of eliminative materialists, does not and cannot exist. That they seek to explain consciousness strongly suggests that they think that -consciousness- exists. Dennet, for example, in this thread, quoted ala "ofc consciousness exists, it;s just not what you think it is". What is there, in any of this, to be unclear about?
If happening means now, then your consciousness is not happening. It happened. It still -seems- like it's happening though, doesn't it? This is one of the illusions to which eliminativists refer.
Consciousness IS the happening. The rest is just content.
But then, when you say you experience your consciousness directly, what do you mean? You experience its happeningness?
