Consciousness does not exist in relation to neurons or other physical entities. It is experienced by selfs, which happen to be fictional representations generated by brains. Consciousness is a self-experience of fictional characters.
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Replying to @Plinz
I really think self is not necessary for awareness/experience/consciousness. With psychedelics people can have ego death in which there is no self, and they still experience things.
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Replying to @DeltrusGaming
You are correct. There are states of depersonalization in which the contents of attentional awareness are no longer integrated into a self.
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Replying to @Plinz
So contents of attentional awareness = What we are aware of? I don't think you can define awareness like that. Too self referential. There has to be some reason why we are aware of some brain processing and not other brain processing.
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Replying to @DeltrusGaming @Plinz
And you can't just point to an abstract area and say "because it is here". One abstract area has to be qualitatively different compared to another, or they would share the same qualities.
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Replying to @DeltrusGaming @Plinz
I really think that consciousness is a property of physics, an "assumption" of the universe. Something that is there for no reason, "just because". Consciousness as a physical property can also explain the binding problem, aka why our experience is so integrated together.
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Replying to @DeltrusGaming @Plinz
I really would rather you be right, because consciousness like you describe could be relatively easily be programmed in. But I think your version of consciousness would be like writing an equation for a black hole, which doesn't suck things in because numbers/equations !=physics
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Did it occur to you that you don't exist in a physical universe, but in a dream, generated on a higher plane of existence? And that the higher plane of existence is actually the physical universe, and the mechanism that dreams you is the brain?
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