RE: Pleasure and Joy
September 6, 2013 at 7:38 am
(This post was last modified: September 6, 2013 at 7:46 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(September 6, 2013 at 2:41 am)genkaus Wrote: You missed a line...Except Fido is a dog.
I am human and can run.
I find that being human is necessary to run.
Fido can run.
Thus Fido is human.
The proposition that certain behaviors require sentience is an unsupported claim anyway.
(September 6, 2013 at 5:36 am)bennyboy Wrote: ...why does a person have a single conscious stream? Where is that canvas, or agent, or unifying principle that allows ideas to share the same mental space?Upon further introspection you may discover multiple streams of awareness within you. The little voice is one among many. The other include, visual imagination, intuitive awareness, emotion, and the various sense channels. Because they act simultaneously you may think they act in unison. That is not always the case.