Hi John, I just have a simple question then. Do you know you're conscious?
Cheers! Telmo. Brent, Telmo and all others 'consciousness' anchored members: > > It is an easy cop-out to say the "c" term is too complicated to be > identified. > If we want to use it we better knowWHAT we wnt to use. My definition is > "response to relations" - another cop-out, because it is hard to identify > RELATION (and of course: a 'response' to it). But it widens the scope from > a 'human mental summersault' into a characteristic of the 'existence' (what > is THAT?) applicable all over. > OUR OWN "Consciousness" is a fine attribute as usually applied, not > satisfactory for me. I tried to make it more extended/expanded - universal. > E.g. an electrode is conscious of a nearby charge (and vice versa) and a > mass-particle about another one feeling gravitation, if we identified all > these terms. I did not. > > It also reverberates on the term 'conscious' of course. A.S.O. > John M > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:27 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. >> >> 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. > -- 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.
