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The Problem Of Consciousness
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Maybe one of the 'big 'questions that some on here would argue about, but....
Isnt consciousness just the product of the brain, just as heat is the product of fire?
Ive struggled with this question as much as anyone who has an interest in such things.
After a lifetime of reading about such things from NDE's to religion to investigating the occult and 'supernatural' and investigating spiritualism in all its forms...alternative spiritual philosophes etc.
I cant see anything that contradicts the view that consiousness is merley a brain activity
Where do you go when you sleep? (non REM)?
Where are *YOU* at 2am?
Your body (a collection of millions of cells) maybe asleep, but where is your consiousness?
Maybe the 'self' doesnt exist.
Scary thought in itself.....
Isnt consciousness just the product of the brain, just as heat is the product of fire?
Ive struggled with this question as much as anyone who has an interest in such things.
After a lifetime of reading about such things from NDE's to religion to investigating the occult and 'supernatural' and investigating spiritualism in all its forms...alternative spiritual philosophes etc.
I cant see anything that contradicts the view that consiousness is merley a brain activity
Where do you go when you sleep? (non REM)?
Where are *YOU* at 2am?
Your body (a collection of millions of cells) maybe asleep, but where is your consiousness?
Maybe the 'self' doesnt exist.
Scary thought in itself.....
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No apologies for this - a straight lift from Wiki.
Consciousness, at its simplest, is "sentience or awareness of internal or external existence".Despite millennia of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, being "at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives".
This may prove to be a long thread indeed.
Consciousness, at its simplest, is "sentience or awareness of internal or external existence".Despite millennia of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, being "at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives".
This may prove to be a long thread indeed.
It may be, but no clear reason to think it may not be otherwise. Is the programme you watch on the TV just a product of the TV set ?
I may not recall where I was while asleep, but there again, I don't recall where I was this day say 7 years ago. Memory is a strange thing. Apparently most is just reconstructed anyway. One thing I'm sure of, reality, whatever that is, will be much stranger than we can presently imagine. One only has to compare quantum theory and even more cutting edge conjecture with that believed in, in the Middle Ages, to get a taste of how little we really know.
I may not recall where I was while asleep, but there again, I don't recall where I was this day say 7 years ago. Memory is a strange thing. Apparently most is just reconstructed anyway. One thing I'm sure of, reality, whatever that is, will be much stranger than we can presently imagine. One only has to compare quantum theory and even more cutting edge conjecture with that believed in, in the Middle Ages, to get a taste of how little we really know.
