RE: Consciousness & Space-Time
March 11, 2013 at 2:51 am
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2013 at 2:53 am by FallentoReason.)
(March 11, 2013 at 2:41 am)apophenia Wrote:(March 11, 2013 at 2:29 am)FallentoReason Wrote: Is it possible for your conscience to be in two places at once and separated in the time dimension?(bolding added)
Why don't you start with the preliminary of demonstrating that consciousness is something to which the verb "to be" even applies. Consciousness neither is nor isn't in two places because it has no such "being" that it requires "a place" to be (aside from in the cognitions of the machine).
Maybe there'sa subtlety that went right over my head here... but aren't you answering your own speculation by what you said in brackets? You believe that our conscience/awareness arises from the material brain. Correct? If so, then where is the place within it where everything comes together to produce the awareness I experience? It comes from material things, so naturally I'd be able to spot the materials that are the conscience, no? If so, then it is true to say that the "I" can simultaneously be in two places at once, since "I" occupy a volume in space?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
