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They say consciousness is a gift evolution gave us, something social animals have to help them with the social stuff.
But that doesn't make any sense. From an external perspective, consciousness would simply be the capability to have private thoughts, opinions, and awareness of its own being - Dasein. Yet, that wouldn't give us the consciousness we feel.
Everything alive is simply well organized atoms that are able to store energy to be used later. There is absolutely no way these atoms could create the consciousness we have. As I said, it would simply help socialize. As an example - the chinese room. Consciousness would simply be the capability of thought and interpretation. From the outside, there is no way to tell whether it is alive or if it is just a machine.
So, what is this consciousness we feel, this thing that makes us feel alive? Surely some philosopher should have already written something on this subject
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Imagine yourself moving your hand without being conscious of it. You can't, because the presence of "yourself" in an action is what defines you being "conscious" of that action. But does "yourself" actually need to be yourself? This "agent" does not seem to undergo any change, or come from any point in space OR time. The detection of this agent by your brain in an action is what causes your brain to label that action as "conscious". There is no reason why everything in the universe can't possess this agent, as you neither know everything in the universe nor do you know the full scope of the agent.
So sit down and try to focus on that "feeling", so you can see how weak your grasp on it truly is.
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Imagine one of these complex contraptions, where you put a single ball in the system and then a lot of things happen. But eventually there is no more energy to be used, so it stops. According to science, our bodies are one of these contraptions, but there is constant input and storage of energy from the outside.
Now, could you make a contraption so complex that it becomes "conscious" of its own self? I doubt it.
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>>9215747
Yes
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