• forrest-sounds
    14
    I know I'm conscious,
    because I am conscious.
    Because I am conscious,
    I know I'm conscious.
  • bongo fury
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    Are some circular arguments reasonable?forrest-sounds

    Sure. Just not deductively (formally, syntactically, mechanically, automatically).

    and is this an example of one?forrest-sounds

    So it depends on whether your circle is a tight loop, and has to have been spinning forever (unreasonable) or is more like a broth on a slow boil, added to and stirred, re-fried etc. (a culture).
  • alan1000
    175
    This has nothing to do with circular arguments in the traditional sense. What you are asserting here is 'Sartrean' consciousness - the [self]-awareness of consciousness - as opposed to the simple, reactive consciousness of, eg, Behavioural Psychology,
  • TonesInDeepFreeze
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    I know I'm conscious,
    because I am conscious.
    Because I am conscious,
    I know I'm conscious.
    forrest-sounds

    That only switches the order of the clauses 'I know I'm conscious' and 'because I'm conscious'.

    That just redundancy, not circularity.
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