Tim Bayne - What Is Consciousness?
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2021
- Consciousness is what we can know best and explain least. It is the inner subjective experience of what it feels like to see red or smell garlic or hear Beethoven. Consciousness has intrigued and baffled philosophers. To begin, we must define and describe consciousness. What to include in a complete definition and description of consciousness?
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Tim Bayne is Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, Australia. He is author of The Unity of Consciousness (2010), Thought: A Very Short Introduction (2013), Philosophy of Religion: A Very Short Introduction (2018), and an editor of Delusion and Self-Deception (2008), The Oxford Companion to Consciousness (2009) and Cognitive Phenomenology (2011). He is a Senior Fellow in the CIFAR 'Brain, Mind and Consciousness' program.
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Bless his hubristic heart. His extensive studies have only left him more confounded.
If space and time are relative to observer, observer must be absolute. Since observer is Conscious, Consciousness is absolute and beyond space time.
.“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.”
Consciousness lurking inside feelings, getting back to the center.
Well, that couldn't have been more uninformative.
Would it help to break up consciousness into distinct parts, such as subjective awareness and physical perceptions?
I like this guy... He is saying this is the way it possibly is. Not like some other previous interviewees who say this is the way it is...backed up by little more than preconceived notions.
I honestly have no problem with science investigating any aspect of nature. But I do believe there are some things that scientist will never have a satisfactory answer, this is one of them.
It's not a difficult question, not difficult to answer as well. It's a simple question, and knowing what consciousness is is as simple as knowing what your life experience is made of.
Awareness and Attention working together for survival.
I'm also on the side of thoughts being sensory forms of experience, and not their own special category of experience. Anything I can think about, whether numbers, past events, recalling something from memory--it's accompanied by vague visual images, verbalized sounds in my head, feelings, and so on. And I can't point to anything in particular that's 'abstract' or non-sensory when thinking about these things; I think they're just less intense and maybe less vivid kinds of sensory experiences.
I’ve had experiences I can’t explain. I’ve photographed mirrors only to find images in the mirrors that I could not see at the time. Did recording the event to hard drive change what was there?
At the center of Consciousness is always the observer…the observer of the taste of …beer, the color red….even a thought becomes an object to be viewed by the observer…color, taste , sound, touch are All objects to be experienced by the observer…even the sense of self is an object to the observer…
Consciousness is what I experience till I've had one too many followed by a period of unconscious.
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I recall being conscious
Does consciousness symbolize / express energy in words and language?
Consciousness is a sense.
Would consciousness be possible without the capability/location to store information, to do something with that information. If experience was just one big stream of events what then? Is Consciousness then information capture, processing capability, choice as an action based on that process, new information, another process, retrieve information from memory relevant to the last piece of info, add to it, make a different choice or the same choice. What regulates choice across individuals?
Consciousness...the recognition of one's self due to sensory experiences followed by memory convaied possible outcomes coupled with emotional and survival qualities in hopes of controlling ones immediate future. One could argue true consciousness starts only once we are born and want for things like comfort, food, and soothing from our mothers. Automatic brain function to find a better existence or moment then what we are experiencing.