Dontaskme wrote:Consciousness doesn't know it's conscious. ...
Not heard of self-consciousness then?
That would require it to split in two, into the knower and the known. ...
Exactly but it needs memory.
It only becomes known on reflection. ...
In other words, memory.
Consciousness is not two, it's indivisible. ...
True and there are lots of them.
Consciousness is like a mirror that cannot see itself, it can only reflect it self as other, it's same self. ...
True, it can have memory and a language and create an 'other' to reflect itself and others.
And in order for the mirror to be able to reflect, it has to be empty so that it's reflection is seen. ...
Mirrors aren't empty?
Consciousness therefore, is empty fullness. ...
Or full emptiness.
The worls that appears outside of you is your mirror. ...
In what sense?
The belief in another consciousness is because there is a belief in your consciousness. ...
Hear that language you are talking and thinking in? That lets you know that there is a consciousness out there other than your own. As a single consciousness could not develop and would not need such a thing.
No 'thing' has consciousness, there is only consciousness which is not a thing. ...
Depends what you call a 'thing', are you a thing?
There is no need for a belief in consciousness. ...
Who believes in consciousness? I know I'm conscious and that's called being self-conscious.
Consciousness is without doubt or error. ...
About what? But I agree, it is without doubt or error that I am.
Any belief would just be an appearance within consciousness, a belief would be no thing. ...
No, it'd be a belief.
Consciousness and the contents of consciousness are not outside of consciousness. ...
Well dur! But the external world and other consciousnesses certainly are.
Consciousness is the boundless infinite container of everything...aka itself which is no thing.
Just a metaphysical assumption that the noumena is 'conscious' and as such has as much veracity as the world existing due to little pink and black fairies or even a 'God'.