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Do we know what it is? Is it inseparable from intelligence and other mental faculties? Is it intelligence?

>> No.12018252

Don't think about it too much. Probably one of the dumbest things this species does is try to overthink and justify the simple fact that they're aware of their own existence. It's in the realm of philosophy, not science.

>> No.12018269

>>12018252
It’s not that it worries me, I’m just curious if it will ever be possible to transplant or extract someone’s conscious (like into a little box) and then plug in mental faculties (memory, sight, rationale, etc) and you could essentially program what one, tangibly continuous individual is experiencing.

>> No.12018360

It's an emergent property.

>> No.12018523

>>12018252
Yea but why is the awareness the way it is?

Why not like my desktop computer? It doesnt have consciousness but it has awareness of hundreds of internal processes and a consistent session "waking state" maintained. It even automatically goes to "sleep" to save energy. Or sometimes it "dreams" vast interactive fantasy worlds in 3D(vidya games).

But it couldnt be consciousness...because...oh shit...wait...

>> No.12018524

>>12018269
If you're asking if people could theoretically alter consciousness by scrambling your brain, the answer is yes.

>> No.12018615

We have this thread every day
Here come the qualianiggers

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>>12018360
>it's semantics

>> No.12019196

>>12018920
/thread

>> No.12019708

>>12018233
It's an evolutionary spandrel.

>> No.12019715

It's heavily related to attention. It's probably the way the brain automates tasks so it can attend to the here and now.

>> No.12019737

>>12018269
>extract someone’s conscious (like into a little box)
that would require removing the entire nervous system and transplanting it into another body, since that's what your conscience is. If your brain gets damaged, you become less conscious, right up the point of becoming a vegetable. Do you get it?
It's not some mystical magical entity

>> No.12020357

>>12018615
P-zombies? On /sci/? It's more likely than you think.

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>>12018252
>Don't think about it too much. Probably one of the dumbest things this species does is try to overthink and justify the simple fact that they're aware of their own existence. It's in the realm of philosophy, not science.

I think that takes the cake as the dumbest thing I have read on /sci/ and that's saying something.

As far as our understanding goes, we are biological machines. Our brains are essentially machines as well. How the fuck is the question why this machine is self-aware in the realm of philosophy and not science.

If we build a huge computer and it becomes self-aware somehow, shoud we put our best philosophers to work to figire out how it happened?

It is really astonishing sometimes how dumb you people are.