What Is Consciousness?

What Is Consciousness?



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43 thoughts on “What Is Consciousness?

  1. It’s pretty clear that we don’t exist as a static being; we’re ever changing and it makes no sense to define a person without specifying the time dimension. We’re a sum total of our physical characteristics, down to the atomic level, plus memories and so forth. We change constantly, never being able to be defined perfectly

  2. The relationship between consciousness and time may be more fundamental than we assume.
    We typically think of consciousness as something that exists in time—a river of experience flowing from past to future. But consider: the only moment you've ever actually experienced is now. Every memory of the past is a present experience of remembering. Every anticipation of the future is a present experience of anticipating.
    What if consciousness doesn't move through time, but rather generates the experience of time? The feeling of duration, of one moment following another, might be a feature of how awareness structures itself—not a pre-existing container that awareness sits inside.
    This inverts the usual picture. Instead of asking "how does consciousness arise in a physical universe evolving through time?" we might ask "how does the experience of time arise within consciousness?"
    Neither framing is necessarily correct, but the second one reveals an assumption we rarely question: that time is the fundamental stage upon which everything else, including our minds, performs. But we have no access to time except through consciousness. We've never experienced a moment outside of experience.
    It's a kind of epistemic vertigo—realizing that the thing we use to examine everything (awareness) cannot itself be examined from the outside.

  3. What if the problem is in the question itself? We're so deep in the language game of "consciousness" that we're debating a ghost in the machine. We explore how to escape this linguistic trap and dissolve the false problem on our channel, Sin Magia.

  4. I used to work as an internet repair specialist at a call center and I had two customers who had half their brain removed at adulthood, it's very odd that it happened twice and there's a small chance it was the same person but about equally rare

  5. I don’t think in the lightning example it would be you, because it’s not the same exact atoms that where in you prior at that time in paticular, if in the Star Trek if the beam that beamed people down to planets and was contained and used the exact same atoms in your body at that moment of teleportation then I would say that’s still you, distance away also matters it dident transport you, it’s just a perfect circumstance. The only way for it to be you you would be to isolate all other atoms from you and then do it. Outside of your atoms being replaced every 5 years this makes sense I think on this specific example

  6. Simply put, consciousness is a part of the spirit that surrounds your material being and keeps you alive.
    Every living creature possesses it's own degree of awareness called life.
    We all come from an electromagnetic energy that sustains our life today.
    Divide the brain and you also divide but do not diminish consciousness.
    The brain translates this energy through thought.sight and sound.
    Any question about which one is you is simply nonsense. You would both be you until your environment changes. Then personalities become irrelevant.
    The demise of the material person has zero influence on the Pleroma

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