If you want to know why

BillyMc
Thu, 26 May 2011 22:57:40 +0000

yes, but there is something peculiar about that fact that we are conscious. Yes, humanity has to be conscious because we’re sufficiently evolved, have language, etc., but why do I have to be? Why do you have to be? I could imagine a universe which was the same in every way except for the fact I never actually perceived anything in it. So why do I? And if I do, why is the visual stimuli coming through these particular eyes, in this particular place, and not where anyone else is, why am I perceiving from this particular being, and not one on another planet, and who or what decided that. How does that work?

So that is what I mean by assigned. I think our consciousness’ can arise from our brains, and that we can also think about them at the same time as in some sense being assigned. Personally though I don’t think we are assigned really; or I think that the assignment is a illusion which makes us think we’re tied down to one person, to seeing from perspective, etc., but I think its also a necessary, unavoidable illusion

I remember thinking this way; I suppose I’ve just grown to accept myself as a whole person without a detached mind.

Though I think people are illusion-happy nowadays. Ever since “time is an illusion,” everything of consequence has been said to be an illusion. Yes, all of existence is merely a sea of particles, with all the differences owing merely to the distance between certain particles. However, that doesn’t make us less real.