On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:27 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > If you completely discard the concept of "truth" and replace it entirely >> with "evolutionary usefulness" - does that change anything? >> > > I think it might. For example, suppose we all share the same > consciousness. It is evolutionary useful to maintain the illusion that this > is not the case (thus my previous rant). > > > If you "start with consciousness" then it is fundamental that > consciousness if not shared - otherwise I'd be conscious of it. > I don't agree that that follows. You can realise this intuitively from the experience of dreaming: you can dream that you are someone else, or in completely different circumstances and forget that you're in a dream. If the same consciousness dreams everything, why couldn't this everything contain all sorts of observer moments with illusions of separateness? Telmo. > > Brent > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
