Blog Archive
-
▼
2020
(366)
-
▼
October
(31)
- Your world may be strange to you, but you are ent...
- Imagine consciousness as space. But the space is ...
- Attention is a break in the symmetry of conscious...
- Attention is a specialisation within consciousnes...
- What it feels like to be as you are right now, yo...
- Not just experiencing but also desiring to alter ...
- There can not be a deficiency of being, but there...
- Within its terms experience has a terrible consis...
- If there were a background to appearance, if phen...
- If the self exists what would it be? There is not...
- It becomes a project, your project, and the objec...
- Eternal flatness and neutral contentment, only th...
- You can think your way to the point of seeing the...
- Guilt and shame, which may well be the same thing...
- The mind is as much a product of the world in its...
- Even if you were to find that all of this were a ...
- "...what it feels like to be...whatever you are."...
- The moment you say something you are lost, now sp...
- If you recall past events what returns are the ch...
- The connection between consciousness and being, D...
- Consciousness is weakly defined term but perhaps ...
- The law governed behavior of all phenomena when s...
- The question of self or no-self only arises in te...
- To the extent that particular being forms around ...
- The contrast between knowing that and knowing how...
- The same goes for place as for time; experiencing...
- How is it that experience is always the stationar...
- You never know anything from the inside, there is...
- There is only experience and experience is made e...
- 'Emergence' can play the role of great hope for m...
- There is a tremendous amount of silent intelligen...
-
▼
October
(31)
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
What it feels like to be as you are right now, your integrated inner and outer senses, your climate of mind and heart, your cloud of memories and the floating veins of identity-reflections marbling the whole mass, could all of this be quite different and yet it still be you? The answer has to be yes. All of this spatio-temporal experiential meta-stable complex that is your identity is also a content of experience and could change without the 'experiencer' itself changing; the fact that you would not recognise yourself is immaterial - it is a different movie on the same screen. There are plenty of lived-through moments you've entirely forgotten, but they are still yours, and could be recalled by involuntary memory and reclaimed. And if those involuntary memories were imaginary, or rightfully belonged to someone else, you would nonetheless reclaim them with the same joy. All of which is to say that you are not whatever it 'feels like' to be you. Could the same be said about what you call consciousness? If your consciousness were switched to another consciousness, the same movie but on a different screen, would that still be you? This is like the 'uploaded brain' thought experiment. Here the natural answer is no. You are your consciousness in a stronger sense. This is so even though it seems that you only know of there being such a thing as consciousness by way of experiencings, which as already argued are not you. On the other hand, if your consciousness had already changed in the latter sense of being a different screen, you would not know it. It might happen every night during sleep, might be happening at right now, from moment to moment. What then are you?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.