Daniel C Dennett would agree with you when you state that there is no particular place where consciousness 'comes together'.
Metzinger would state that being a 'You' is nothing more then a 'feeling of', this is distinct from ego as it has nothing to do with how you define who you are, only how you 'feel' what/that you are.
- we can't walk in two directions at once, so all our cells have to come to a common agreement about which way we want to walk... This makes us "of one mind" most of the time. But from moment to moment we are a system in flux, so who is to say that we are the SAME person as we were five minutes ago, apart from our memories? It's the lumpiness of our bodies that holds us together in space, and our memories that hold us together in time.
Heres a quote in relation to your 'Glued puzzle' story, i have to break it in to parts because it contains to many characters:
When you think about it, a human being is really a tenth of a trillion stupid single-celled organisms that just happen to be related by birth and covered in glue so that they stay stuck together in a lump. I think it has to be the glue, in a very real sense, that holds us together as a single mind --
Great video. Unity is probably the most obvious characteristic of conscious experience, but of course we have to pay attention to conscious experience before it becomes so obvious. It's much easier to pay attention only to points of distinction, hopping from one to the next and always ignoring the gap, or glue, that holds them all together.
Daniel C Dennett would agree with you when you state that there is no particular place where consciousness 'comes together'.
Metzinger would state that being a 'You' is nothing more then a 'feeling of', this is distinct from ego as it has nothing to do with how you define who you are, only how you 'feel' what/that you are.
Canteatpancakes 4 years ago
this one should have been below the other, oh well. :)
Canteatpancakes 4 years ago
- we can't walk in two directions at once, so all our cells have to come to a common agreement about which way we want to walk... This makes us "of one mind" most of the time. But from moment to moment we are a system in flux, so who is to say that we are the SAME person as we were five minutes ago, apart from our memories? It's the lumpiness of our bodies that holds us together in space, and our memories that hold us together in time.
Canteatpancakes 4 years ago
Heres a quote in relation to your 'Glued puzzle' story, i have to break it in to parts because it contains to many characters:
When you think about it, a human being is really a tenth of a trillion stupid single-celled organisms that just happen to be related by birth and covered in glue so that they stay stuck together in a lump. I think it has to be the glue, in a very real sense, that holds us together as a single mind --
Canteatpancakes 4 years ago
Great video. Unity is probably the most obvious characteristic of conscious experience, but of course we have to pay attention to conscious experience before it becomes so obvious. It's much easier to pay attention only to points of distinction, hopping from one to the next and always ignoring the gap, or glue, that holds them all together.
0ThouArtThat0 4 years ago