On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Russell Standish <[email protected]>wrote:
> > The last time I had general anaesthetic, I remember the count of the > anaesthetist up to 4, but not any number higher than that. > What was the point of that? I thought you were supposed to do the counting not the doctor. It if you were doing the counting you may not remember going higher than 4 but I'll bet immediately after you said "4" if the doctor asked you a question you could still give a answer, probably fuzzy and possibly incorrect but a answer nevertheless. And its probably incorrect to talk about being conscious without specifying conscious of what. True we can become conscious of ourselves but most of the time we don't bother to do so because there just isn't much profit in it, instead most of the time we're conscious of other people and other things and of hypothetical future events and hypothetical actions that could be made in response to those hypothetical future events. >> Are you really trying to make the case that consciousness is a all or >> nothing matter that is so simple it can be completely described with just >> one bit of information, on or off? >> > > >Yes. I don't see how it could be otherwise. > My consciousness certainly isn't a all or nothing matter, if yours is then your mind must work very differently from mine. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
