On 3 Oct, 13:14, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's always possible we live in 'Delusionville' rather than as
> conscious, sentient beings. This would explain a lot of problematic
> nastiness like Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher and the underperformance
> of Warrington Rugby League Football Club. However, as Roger Penrose
> points out, there seems no Earthly reason why evolution should have
> developed consciousness (assuming it has, as there is a potential
> chicken and egg here) as much complex happens other than in what we
> have named consciousness as an emergent property of human brains.
> Neural density is higher in parts of the brain we don't associate with
> consciousness as such an emergent property. After all, evolution
> tends to proceed by killing species off, job presumably done.
>
> So 'why' consciousness?
More importantly, Whose consciousness? If you say 'my consciousness',
you have already made a division/separation between your concept of
self and the consciousness--that relationship being that you consider
the consciousness 'yours'. So if the consciousness isn't you, as
evidenced by the separation made by considering it 'your
consciousness', whose is it? Once you've determined whose
consciousness it is you are discussing, its purpose might be more
readily available or more obviously discernable. ;-)
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