Thats oddly reassuring. Seeing conciousness as whats lets the self/personal identity exist/experience itself but not self/personal identity itself means that gaps in conciousness is not a problem anymore — AJ88
On level of intuition, for me survival of both the body, brain, and memories seems important, but I dont know if they actually are. — AJ88
It is probably safer to say that if you are asking the question of “what is consciousness?”, you are already making a rookie mistake. Most of the “theories” are chasing the explanatory phantoms left by Cartesian dualism.
But studying neurobiology and psychology gives you a good sense of how brains actually model worlds. And the logic of that can be found in systems theories.
What do neurobiology and psychology say is the causal mechanism for how brains produce consciousness? — RogueAI
Again, they would say if you ask the question that way, it already locks in the wrong perspective.
Now, repalce a few words: "What do biologists say is the causal mechanism for how livers produce bile"? That can be asked and answered. — RogueAI
And there's an implicit assumption in your response that brains exist. They might, they might not. — RogueAI
I don't assume materialism/physicalism to be the case. Why do you and what warrants that assumption? — RogueAI
Now, why isn't there a similar link for "how do brains produce consciousness?" — RogueAI
Also: you seem to assume brains exist. Do you assume that? — RogueAI
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