(August 5, 2012 at 4:24 pm)laurent Wrote: who are you? your body? your brain? your consciousness? a list of all the events that happened to your body?
Pretty much, yes. Why does there need to be anything more?
(August 5, 2012 at 4:24 pm)laurent Wrote: there should be a point for being conscious from an evolutionary point of view
You just listed the answers to this all by yourself. However, consider what would be the consequences of not being conscious. How could you possibly know?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
