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>From: sparky@wixer.cactus.org (Timothy Sheridan)
Subject: Conscious of what?
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To say one is conscious is like saying one is knowledge---CONSCIOUS OF WHAT?
We seem to be conscious of a variety of things that go on in our heads.  But
which of these things is somthing that a computer would find dificult?

Do we agree that simply being conscious of light but not ones self seems to
be more the province of cammeras and computers than people?  But perhaps
people are only lead to think they are conscious of an event because it
arrives later in the short term memory.  Rather, suppose a mechanical part of
the brain tells the rest of the brain that it is perceiving. the perception
is not conscious but the message is beleived.  Immagine all the billions of
simmilar messages that unconsciously beleive they beleive they know feel.

A philosopher could in principle become lost in that kind of complexity and
totaly misconstrue it as homunculoid theretofore.

Tim.


