On 7/19/2014 9:25 PM, Kim Jones wrote:
On 20 Jul 2014, at 1:44 pm, John Clark <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Kim Jones <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Consciousness comes in two flavours (that I know of):
1. I know
2. I know that I know. (Presumably something to do with remembering that
you knew.)
Are there any others?
Well, do you know that you know that you know? Even if the answer is yes after just a
few more iteration the answer will certainly be no because you won't be able to follow
even what the question means. And as a practical matter at least 99% of the time you
don't know that you know, you just know. Most of the time it would be counterproductive
anyway, if you were fully aware of how you know that you know how to walk and chew gum
at the same time you'd fall flat on your face.
John K Clark
OK. So what separates us then, from dolphins and elephants who apparently also 'know
that they know'? You aren't allowed to respond "Intelligence" because intelligence is
what makes introspection possible in the first place. Without self-awareness there is no
self to inspect. You can can question many things about the content of your
consciousness. A cat can't. There needs to be a 'knower', a 'self' or a 'subject'. Who
or what is that? What part of your brain is more evolved than a cat's brain that allows
you to say "I know"?
The language part.
Brent
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