On 1/22/2015 4:05 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:27 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]
<mailto:[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.
But that's not separate, I remember the dream. If I don't remember the dream, is it me?
Is it me because the dream and reality share a body that can't be both at once?
Brent
If the same consciousness dreams everything, why couldn't this everything contain all
sorts of observer moments with illusions of separateness?
Telmo.
Brent
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