Le 24-juil.-06, à 13:56, Russell Standish a écrit :
> Consciousness is the state of "being like something" to use Nagel's > term. It is also the characteristic of the "reference class" in > Anthropic reasoning. > > Self-awareness is being aware of oneself as a distinct thing different > from the environment. > > It is not immediately obvious that these are identical - but perhaps > I'm overlooking something. I am pretty sure consciousness and self-awareness are different concept. But we are a long way to distinguishing them theoretically at the present stage, so I would say that to insist on the difference here is akin to a 1004 fallacy, imo. The difference you are mentioning is the difference between awareness and self-awareness, or between consciousness and self-consciousness I would say, Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
