RE: Consciousness & Space-Time
March 11, 2013 at 2:13 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2013 at 2:16 pm by Whateverist.)
(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?
Yes it is possible for your consciousness to be on two things at once, and more. I'm not as comfortable talking about it "being in two places at once" since I have no idea how or where the brain accomplishes its many tasks, and I doubt that really matters for this question anyway.
The brain is doing many things most of the time, not just two things. I have no problem imagining the brain simultaneously taking note of new stimuli and beginning to process their significance at the same time that it continues to ruminate on some earlier input. Conscious attention is not as good at multi-tasking. But the unconscious is vast and conscious attention is just one of the balls it has in the air at any one time.
I think the conflict you should worry about are those which arise on account of our insistence on seeing consciousness as unitary. It isn't, it's complex.
(March 11, 2013 at 2:29 am)FallentoReason Wrote: If you answered "no" to my question above, then where does the conscience reside if it can't exist in a place that occupies a volume?
Space and sequence are a couple of the categories our consciousness creates to make sense of our experience. I'm not saying they're not real, I'm just saying they're the real that our mode of consciousness is attuned to. I'm in no position to speculate on what is actual or what the limits may be for what is possible. Any speculation I engage in will necessarily align with what is possible for my consciousness.
I didn't answer "no" to your question above but I'm not sure it makes sense to talk about where consciousness resides except to say the brain seems to be the culprit.
