/lit/ - Literature

>>10792788
>Currently have no idea what to do. In the previous 4 months it would have been dark by now and I would know the day is over. But now it's daylight and it's like etc etc

someone should put a blanket over your head so you know it's time to sleep

>>10352433
>literally how the fuck would the behavior of molecules and nerve firings cause something as genuinely novel as consciousness
Remember that consciousness is only a part of experience. Your brain is always on. Jung's model of the Self is my favorite. You have an unconscious mind -- obviously seated in the brain and not whooshing through the light fixtures -- that is speaking constantly, but the you that you think of as "you" doesn't hear it in the waking hours. Individuation helps, but like ourselves it is a process that is never complete. There are too many competing inputs, constantly challenging for pole position: from fingertips and hands and feet and legs and arms to torso and muscle groups and so on. The exact nature of transmission I can't tell you, but it is present and I make no cat-brained claims about it being of a certain nature. Just unknown.

>read Epiphenomenal Qualia by Frank Jackson and The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
Thanks for the recommendations.

>"Anything we observe is physical"
That's not what I said. Anything we CAN observe. Not merely conceived but those things which can be scientifically measured by an instrument.

>What if they can't? Why are you soooo sure that science is going to figure this out?
Because it is inevitable. Our bodies are not so complicated, really. And if you want to be a negative nancy I'll tell you with a straight face we are still infants at science. We've understood DNA for what... several decades? And the scientific study of nature only began a few hundred years ago. We have modeled our minds using only words for millennia, and we are JUST NOW beginning to record our discoveries in impartial language that exists outside of connotation and misunderstanding.