RE: Mindfulness or Mindlessness?
September 2, 2021 at 2:19 pm
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2021 at 2:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I know I harp on this in every conversation like this - but fully mapping and explaining a single human consciousness could not be expected to derive necessary insight into the next human consciousness and certainly would not apply to consciousness in toto if there's even one other non human consciousness anywhere in the universe.
All we could ever say was that for this particular human...so and so..and humans broadly, so and so....though not uniformly - as none of us are completely identical in every relevant respect.
Wouldn't it be horrible (for explanations) if every consciousness was as individually organized as that consciousness was individually instantiated in a meaningfully distinct conscious being? We could never do better for an explanation than a cognitive form of pidgin, no matter how much data we collected..and if resolving this was the bar for resolving the purported mystery of consciousness...we could know everything about every instantiated consciousness and even come up with a universal translation between every known example and still not satisfy that explanatory demand.
If that's not a manufactured mystery, fuck me if I know what would be...but maybe I simply lack the phenomenal concept required to ideate and understand...
GODDAMNIT!
All we could ever say was that for this particular human...so and so..and humans broadly, so and so....though not uniformly - as none of us are completely identical in every relevant respect.
Wouldn't it be horrible (for explanations) if every consciousness was as individually organized as that consciousness was individually instantiated in a meaningfully distinct conscious being? We could never do better for an explanation than a cognitive form of pidgin, no matter how much data we collected..and if resolving this was the bar for resolving the purported mystery of consciousness...we could know everything about every instantiated consciousness and even come up with a universal translation between every known example and still not satisfy that explanatory demand.
If that's not a manufactured mystery, fuck me if I know what would be...but maybe I simply lack the phenomenal concept required to ideate and understand...
GODDAMNIT!
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
