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Soylent Green Is People
sulaw
...Are you postulating that "electricity"? is concious?
A greater question would be does consciousness really exist (and I mean consciousness as a separate defined "thing")?
It is possible that consciousness is not an actual thing, and is really just the byproduct of the chemical activity in our brains causing brain functions.
Using that definition, consciousness is not really its own "thing", and when our brain chemistry stops at death, the phenomenon in our brains that we refer to as "consciousness" simply ends.
A greater question would be does consciousness really exist (and I mean consciousness as a separate defined "thing")?
purplemer
reply to post by Soylent Green Is People
A greater question would be does consciousness really exist (and I mean consciousness as a separate defined "thing")?
Really one of the few things I really know exists, is consciousness. It is something I directly experience..
what is your point of view?
purplemer
reply to post by Soylent Green Is People
A greater question would be does consciousness really exist (and I mean consciousness as a separate defined "thing")?
Really one of the few things I really know exists, is consciousness. It is something I directly experience..
sulaw
reply to post by KrzYma
what is your point of view?
My apologies I thought we were talking about simple circuits.... My POV on conciousness.
It's just a layman opinion keep that in mind
As a concious sentient being, I can perceive, react, deduct, change POV on experiance. No wires, all brain power with food/water sustenance driving this human body for the required energy to do so.
As a concious single individual, I am not programed for one objective but for many. We have the ability to not just learn 1 thing/subject but multiple, endless knowledge and any one single concious mind is free to learn what they want when they want.
Concious mind, powering the evolution of human limitation or not from the dawn of time.
But what do I know, I'm just a simple human
Soylent Green Is People
purplemer
reply to post by Soylent Green Is People
A greater question would be does consciousness really exist (and I mean consciousness as a separate defined "thing")?
Really one of the few things I really know exists, is consciousness. It is something I directly experience..
Do you think it is something that is separate from our brain's chemical functions, and is it something that can be separated from (i.e., exist outside of) our brain's chemical functions?
Maybe it is, and it would be nice if it was, but I have no way of knowing if it is -- and I'm not sure how YOU know that it is.
It is possible that consciousness is not an actual thing, and is really just the byproduct of the chemical activity in our brains causing brain functions.
symptomoftheuniverse
One problem with this idea is that there is a none conscious reality. Unlike whats claimed and i can prove it.
I have been learning recently, that this idea is millenia old. Only now is modern science taking an interest. Why?
symptomoftheuniverse
Consciousness is created by the sub conscious mind, if you accept this statement then you must also admit that there is a non conscious reality.
Our consciousness is floating on the surface of a mega reality. Its everything you can imagine and its evrything you cant imagine. Its everything man
symptomoftheuniverse
reply to post by KrzYma
read my last post.