RE: Can Consciousness Best Be Explained by God's Existence?
March 31, 2014 at 12:56 pm
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2014 at 12:58 pm by Whateverist.)
(March 31, 2014 at 11:13 am)rasetsu Wrote: I suspect that consciousness, the "what it's like to be me," is something similar, that the perceptual parts of the brain, which normally process sight, sound, motion, language, and other "agents," is in consciousness receiving it's marching orders not from the outside world of sights and sounds, but is being driven from inside to create a "construct" that is made out of the same stuff as our perceptions.
I missed this post earlier when I responded to Chad and signed off. Interesting. As you were saying in another post, there are many parts of the brain simultaneously processing many things. We are or can be conscious of many of these. I suspect it isn't just in the theater of the imagination that the mind feeds back through the processors of perception. I suspect even when we are just listening or watching the world around us as objectively as we can, that emotive centers are adding shadings to what we experience. Memory is injecting associations. It really is a symphony of inputs to which a narrative of meaning too is overlaid. We don't (or at least don't have to) 'will' any of the instruments to play. Their playing is what has given rise to self awareness and our intuition of a personal identity. Cool stuff.
