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Replying to @Plinz
Consciousness (as in awareness itself, not self-consciousness) probably doesn't do anything, and there's absolutely no good reason for there to be stuff at all. And that's great!
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Replying to @trevor_w_a
It does inform you that you are aware. That is very useful to know.
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Replying to @Plinz
But does consciousness itself even feed back into the brain? Or is it a mere by-product of mechanical operations that sometimes self-reference? This question is harder than it sounds at first, and requires a pretty specific definition of consciousness.
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Replying to @trevor_w_a
If consciousness would not "feed back" into the brain, you would either not claim that you are conscious, or your claim would be meaningless (because your message would not be caused by you being conscious).
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Replying to @Plinz
My big sticking point is that I cannot conceive of a mechanism that would allow "cross-over" between direct experience and the material world. Where would experience go? Does it have physical properties? Could I "get to" your perception of the color blue?
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Replying to @trevor_w_a
You don't need a mechanism to cross-over from the physical world, because you don't exist in the physical world. You are entirely virtual. You are content.
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Replying to @Plinz @trevor_w_a
Observer and observed / creator and content / and more (These are conceptual approximations because of being bounded by words but as close as words get )
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Replying to @davidarredondo @Plinz
Yes, otherwise how do we, virtual beings, know the existence of physical existence.
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We don't know it, but it is the best model we came up with.
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Replying to @Plinz @davidarredondo
Since the statement contains "best" and "we" i guess I'm supposed to stop. :) But I'll stop after pointing out that the "best" model knows the existence of physical reality and doesn't know it. I understand that this model is limited and heralds another model.
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