Comments on: 08-02-27 http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-02-27/ Promoting Science and Critical Thinking Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:04:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ralph T http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-02-27/#comment-2522 Ralph T Fri, 26 Nov 2010 07:35:41 +0000 http://www.skeptic.com/eSkeptic/?p=213#comment-2522 Why doesn't someone discuss or explain the main problem--- Why am I me? There are billions of consciousnesses.Why do I look out upon the world from the particular identity that I am What selection process occurred to put my consciousness in my body and not someone else's Religion solves the problem by identifying consciousness as soul,an immortal separate entity. Why is there a dual nature to consciousness in which "I" and "me" play separate roles. I often praise or criticize myself. I've spent a lifetime aware of reality as " Ralph" Will I have go through this experience again in the future? Why doesn’t someone discuss or explain the main problem—
Why am I me? There are billions of consciousnesses.Why do I look out upon the world from the particular identity that I am
What selection process occurred to put my consciousness in my body and not someone else’s Religion solves the problem by identifying consciousness as soul,an immortal separate entity.
Why is there a dual nature to consciousness in which “I” and “me” play separate roles. I often praise or criticize myself.
I’ve spent a lifetime aware of reality as ” Ralph” Will I have go through this experience again in the future?

]]> By: Glen McBride http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-02-27/#comment-234 Glen McBride Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:24:40 +0000 http://www.skeptic.com/eSkeptic/?p=213#comment-234 A refreshing comment on consciousness - after the wanderings of Dennett and Chalmers the article was a breath of fresh air. I liked the ides of working thru the development of the child's development, but it was followed only thru the emergence of words. Consciousness is not only about words. You have to go back thru the emergence of awareness of animals and its properties and how each component evolved thru evolving animals dealing with their environment For the awareness of animals is clearly the starting point of the evolution of consciousness. Do animals have consciousness? Perhaps in certain situations with understandable properties of that consciousness. But animals don't have any language - they evolved to deal with images and in the emergence of human evolution, we had to translate them thar images into words, at first translating words back into images and much later acquiring the ability to deal with words as we always had with images. Certainly it was the evolution of languages that gave us the sort of conwsciousness we have, but this doesn't mean that animals don't have their own sort of consciousness - involving images - not words. Ho Hum! Thanks for a delightful review of lots of current thinking on consciousness and the many approaches to dealing with it. Cheerily Glenorchy A refreshing comment on consciousness – after the wanderings of Dennett and Chalmers the article was a breath of fresh air. I liked the ides of working thru the development of the child’s development, but it was followed only thru the emergence of words.
Consciousness is not only about words. You have to go back thru the emergence of awareness of animals and its properties and how each component evolved thru evolving animals dealing with their environment For the awareness of animals is clearly the starting point of the evolution of consciousness. Do animals have consciousness? Perhaps in certain situations with understandable properties of that consciousness. But animals don’t have any language – they evolved to deal with images and in the emergence of human evolution, we had to translate them thar images into words, at first translating words back into images and much later acquiring the ability to deal with words as we always had with images. Certainly it was the evolution of languages that gave us the sort of conwsciousness we have, but this doesn’t mean that animals don’t have their own sort of consciousness – involving images – not words. Ho Hum!
Thanks for a delightful review of lots of current thinking on consciousness and the many approaches to dealing with it.

Cheerily
Glenorchy

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