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Article 6760 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
Subject: Consciousness
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   Consciousness exists everywhere and in everything, like the background in
a picture.  But you need a sufficient degree of self-awareness to see the part
that lies in you.  So naturally people are going to confuse having
self-awareness with being conscious.  But what I see runs far deeper than
mere perception.
   A good approximation of what it's like having a consciousness without any
self-awareness is when you're in a deep sleep, or even better when you're
asleep and in a dream that has no first person point of view.  I've had plenty
of those: dreams in which I wasn't there and didn't exist.


