(November 2, 2015 at 8:20 am)Evie Wrote:Little Rik Wrote:[...] but that will not change the fact that consciousness is an abstract entity.
The evidence is in the fact that your physical senses can not grasp it.
Ummmm the fact is actually consciousness is the one thing we can grasp and know exists 100%.
It's the one thing that cannot be an illusion.
It's the one thing that we must be aware of.
It's the one thing we must sense.
Sam Harris Wrote:It is surely a sign of our intellectual progress that a discussion of consciousness no longer has to begin with a debate about its existence. To say that consciousness may only seem to exist is to admit its existence in full—for if things seem any way at all, that is consciousness. Even if I happen to be a brain in a vat at this moment—all my memories are false; all my perceptions are of a world that does not exist—the fact that I am having an experience is indisputable (to me, at least). This is all that is required for me (or any other conscious being) to fully establish the reality of consciousness. Consciousness is the one thing in this universe that cannot be an illusion.
Full article: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-m...sciousness
You got lost Evie.
I never said that the consciousness does not exist.
I said instead that it is an abstract entity.
For abstract i mean something that can not be perceived with our physical senses.
To be abstract doesn't mean that doesn't exist.
Capisci?