Scott Mayers wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:40 am
So, do you "agree" so far?
Theories of consciousness will remain in the realm of pure speculation.
Consciousness cannot be known in the context of a ''something'' that we can measure with an instrument. We cannot touch it, because we are it.
Any attempt to explain what consciousness is and where it comes from would be akin to ( the contents of consciousness looking for consciousness) which is absurd...and would be like a tooth trying to bite itself, or a fish becoming fully aware of the water it is swimming in to be separate from itself.
Consciousness is one without a second.
The concept of (second) is known because you simply ARE prior to any knowing. .
"I know that I know nothing" is a saying derived from Plato's account of the Greek philosopher Socrates.This concept implies two...A knower and the known. But there is no split there, for knower is the known in the exact same instant of conceptual knowing.
Consciousness is ONE..Every thing else is imagination...a painting upon a blank canvas of not-knowing, known ONLY in the painting. "I am the consummate artist I draw upon my imagination!"
Am I in the painting, or is the painting in I.
The solipsism problem thwarts efforts to explain consciousness. Scientists and philosophers have proposed countless contradictory hypotheses about what consciousness is and how it arises.
But the solipsism problem is far more than a technical philosophical matter. It is a paranoid but understandable response to the feelings of solitude that lurk within us all. Even if you reject solipsism as an intellectual position, you sense it, emotionally, whenever you feel estranged from others, whenever you confront the awful truth that you can never know really know another person, and no one can really know you.
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