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There seems to be something called consciousness that seems to be happening to something called me.





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How we interpret that interrelationship is what I call REAL philosophy.



General Philosophical Discussion doesn't HAVE to be about consciousness; about psychology, but I believe REAL philosophy is just that.



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Bill Wiltrack wrote:.



There seems to be something called consciousness that seems to be happening to something called me.





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How we interpret that interrelationship is what I call REAL philosophy.



General Philosophical Discussion doesn't HAVE to be about consciousness; about psychology, but I believe REAL philosophy is just that.



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Interesting post Bill. Perhaps this is all about distinctions between different states of mind. In a binary system the distinction would be the difference between a 0 and a 1, or the difference between on and off.

It is how we interpret the information that seems to make all the difference. In theory a computer, a lobster and a person would interpret exactly the same information in different ways. For example, light detected at a particular wave length. The interesting thing about humans is that the same information can be interpreted differently depending on the individual. When it comes to a computers and lobsters we tend to have a good chance of predicting their outcomes. Humans not so much.

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How can this be happening to me?

How can this be happening to us?


...and why?







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