Comment by hshshshshsh
4 days ago
You cannot define consciousness. You can only experience it. In fact consciousness is the only thing you will ever experience.
4 days ago
You cannot define consciousness. You can only experience it. In fact consciousness is the only thing you will ever experience.
Perhaps you should use 'sentience' or something more precise to mean 'qualia-experiencing'. The word 'consciousness' is quite overloaded and thus trips people up who haven't thought about this as extensively as you have. In particular many people take it to mean "self-awareness" (whether correctly or not), but it seems obvious to me that there are many sentient beings which lack self-awareness but still have an internal experience.
Yes. Self awareness is just another content inside consciousness.