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| Apr 8 at 16:57 | comment | added | JOHNS WOOD GADGETS | I concede the brain processes information gathered from the senses and then instructs the self to respond. My problem with it being simply topographical (although that is a valid point) is the myriad of different responses to identical stimuli. I realize previous experience will effect the response, but I myself respond differently to identical stimuli. Thoughts, feelings, and strategies come from nowhere. I do wonder where exactly that 'nowhere' actually is. How is it possible for any thought or action to be arbitrary? And yet indications are that they are very often just that. | |
| Apr 8 at 16:31 | comment | added | Speakpigeon | @JOHNSWOODGADGETS To reconcile "universal" and "isolated portions", we can speculate that consciousness is analogous to space, i.e., it is everywhere by definition. If consciousness is indeed knowledge of the informational contents of space, then we can understand the sense of self as an awareness of the information contained specifically in brains (as cognitive systems). Self, then, is not illusion, just a fact about the topology of information in space. | |
| Apr 8 at 16:09 | comment | added | JOHNS WOOD GADGETS | I understand the problems with trinity. But what if consciousness is universal and that which we call self is an isolated portion of that consciousness? Full disclosure I am at this time convinced that is indicated by both anecdotal evidence and research. Would that not mean that the separate entity ('self' and 'others') is the illusion? | |
| Apr 8 at 15:31 | history | edited | Speakpigeon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 11 at 8:50 | comment | added | Professor Sushing | Plus one for some robust common sense. | |
| Jan 10 at 16:53 | history | answered | Speakpigeon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |