Posted by sackhoullier on November 21, 2003, at 4:56:49
In reply to What is consciousness?, posted by Jonny Trigonometry on November 20, 2003, at 23:57:07
Dude, you’ve gone and taken a ton of assumptions that don’t seem to have any basis and built a theory with them.
I’ve read a couple of decent articles about consciousness lately – some interesting theory was that it is a layer that we put on top of what we observe in order to produce an understanding and memory. Sometimes we switch it off – frinstance, sometimes you suddenly realise that you have no memory of driving for the last ten minutes. Because of this, researchers are trying to find out what is going on when we are driving our cars, apparently safely, apparently unconscious, to see which bits of are brain aren’t active that are when we are conscious. Trouble is, you can’t focus on this while not conscious, just thinking about it means that you are conscious. It’s like opening the fridge to see if the light is on, or like some old philosopher who’s name escapes me said ‘it’s like trying to turn the gas up so as to see the darkness.’
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