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Conscious and Unconscious thoughts
- “Consciousness” is often used in the literature as if it implied more than just the qualities of experience.
- The key distinction between conscious and unconscious thought is that “Conscious thought is thought with attention.”
- If a thought escapes attention, then it is unconscious.
However,
- Is the mere lack of attention enough to assert that a mental process lacks the qualities of experience?
- Couldn’t a process that escapes the focus of attention still feel like something?
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Confusion in Consciousness
- We assume that consciousness is limited to re-represented mental contents under the focus of attention.
- This confuses meta-consciousness with consciousness.
- Conscious processes that lack re-representation and tr...
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An Example of consciousness
Consider your breathing right now- the air flow and the movement of your breathing organs.
- Were you not experiencing these sensations a moment ago, before I directed your attention to them?
- Or were you just unaware that you were experiencing them all along?
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Conscious and Meta-conscious
- Both conscious and meta-conscious entail the qualities of experience, however, meta-conscious processes also entail what is called re-representation.
- Re-representation of consciousness is in...
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Consciousness and Re-representation
- Attention plays an important role in re-representation; that is, the conscious knowledge of an experience and introspection.
- Subjects cannot report—not even to themselves—experiences that aren’t re-represented.
- However, cons...
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Consciousness in babies
- It’s debated in neuroscience whether babies are born conscious or whether they develop consciousness at some point (generally said to be five months of age)
- It is hard to think that a newborn feels nothing. Newborns clearly seem to experience ...
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Summary of consciousness
- Consciousness may never arise because it may always be there to begin with. For all we know, what arises is merely a metacognitive configuration of preexisting consciousness.
- Consciousness may be fundamental in nat...
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The visible aspects of our mind consist of the thoughts, feelings and memories that we are aware of, and are in the conscious mind. The impulses, desires, memories and thoughts below the surface, are out of sight and reside in the unconscious mind.
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Superstrong AI Being Conscious
- If consciousness were completely physical then it is easy for Superstrong AI to be aware like humans are.
- If consciousness is an independent unique entity, then one cannot say if computers, AI, and other non-biological entities can ever experience any real awareness.
- In th...
The Unconscious Mind
Left to its own devices, the unconscious mind creates inaccurate beliefs and self-imposed limitations. Its main goal is your survival and it does what it can to get rid of threats, even if it means derailing your conscious goals.
That said, the unconscious ...
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