On Mon, Jul 5, 2021, 4:19 PM Tomas Pales <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Monday, July 5, 2021 at 8:03:46 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote: > >> >> How can my consciousness be located in a place that I am not conscious of? >> > > You are conscious of certain parts of your brain (presumably those that > have high organized complexity of a certain kind), many of which are > representations of external objects. If there are no representations of > your skull it is probably because they have not been useful in evolution. > It is more useful to be conscious of what is going on around your body than > of the interior of your skull. > > We can't rule out that your consciousness is not located in your brain and > your brain just serves as a kind of preliminary processor of sensory data > that somehow sends the preprocessed data to some other object (soul?) where > your consciousness is located but there's not much evidence for that. > This conversation reminds me of Daniel Dennett's short essay "Where am I?": https://www.lehigh.edu/~mhb0/Dennett-WhereAmI.pdf Jason > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/eba612c7-b8d1-4e15-836c-d11ca4eac097n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/eba612c7-b8d1-4e15-836c-d11ca4eac097n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUixHJyf%2B0mRPy%3Ds7xT%2BY8PQj0RFia%3D6w7Bu9%2BxgUCs35g%40mail.gmail.com.
