> On 6 Jul 2021, at 15:53, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 5, 2021, 4:19 PM Tomas Pales <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On Monday, July 5, 2021 at 8:03:46 PM UTC+2 [email protected] > <mailto:[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 > <https://www.lehigh.edu/~mhb0/Dennett-WhereAmI.pdf>
That is very good. It is the place where Dennett get very close, but miss, the first person indeterminacy, note. Bruno > > 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] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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 > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUixHJyf%2B0mRPy%3Ds7xT%2BY8PQj0RFia%3D6w7Bu9%2BxgUCs35g%40mail.gmail.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/D5FD8CA7-3098-4423-9862-F3A01576CBE9%40ulb.ac.be.
