Are You Conscious?

[I Ratant]

Had a zinger to upload, but forgot it.
So I guess, no.

 

[Eyeron]

Often times I am awake, but my mind is not active.

Often times my mind is active, but I am not awake.

We are all the dream of the dolphin.

 

[kuroyume0161]

Is one considered conscious when asleep?

I consider myself conscious when I'm awake, most of the time, but not always, sometimes more or less.

 

[calebprime]

Dave's not here.

 

[Correa Neto]

I think consiousness as a monolithic, continuous "thing" is an illusion. If I am correct and if these characteristics are part of your definition of consciousness, then I am not.

ETA- Where's the mandatory "Planet X" option?

 

[Howie Felterbush]

Not if the case of Beck's Dark in the garage has anything to say about, I'm not.

 

[rocketdodger]

- I am occasionally conscious
- I exhibit conscious behavior
- I am more conscious than a rock
- I am conscious, for certain popularly accepted definitions of conscious
- You tell me whether or not I am conscious
- Beer!
- I like to think I am conscious, but I could be wrong (My personal favorite.)
- Planet X is aware of you

lol, I initially read this as a single answer to the OP question.

 

[PixyMisa]

I am a q-zombie. I exhibit all the behaviours associated with qualia without actually having qualia.

 

[Malerin]

Hmm, so if someone asks you if you're hungry...

- I am occasionally conscious hungry
- I exhibit conscious hungry behavior
- I am more conscious hungry than a rock
- I am conscious hungry, for certain popularly accepted definitions of conscious hungry
- You tell me whether or not I am conscious hungry
- Beer!
- I like to think I am conscious hungry, but I could be wrong (My personal favorite.)
- Planet X is aware of your hunger

You probably don't get asked how you feel too often, do you?

 

[paximperium]

Hmm, so if someone asks you if you're hungry...



You probably don't get asked how you feel too often, do you?

We have a test for that:
Brain Activity in Hunger and Satiety: An Exploratory Visually Stimulated fMRI Study
http://www.nature.com/oby/journal/v16/n5/full/oby200833a.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19028527

 

[plumjam]

Hmm.. 47% of JREFers, when responding to a poll question, could not confirm that they were conscious.
I bet that doesn't make it into SWIFT any time soon.

 

[paximperium]

Hmm.. 47% of JREFers, when responding to a poll question, could not confirm that they were conscious.
I bet that doesn't make it into SWIFT any time soon.

Define "conscious".

 

[Lord Muck oGentry]

* chucks pillow at pollster's head and growls No, I'm having a kip. *



Don't tell. Show.

 

[The Drain]

It's way past my bedtime, so the answer is clearly zxklzzz

 

[Ron_Tomkins]

Ask me right now and I'll say "yes".

Ask me at 3:30 in the morning when I'm heavily sunken in deep sleep, and the answer may not be the same.

Ask me after I've been hit with a rock on the head and fainted, or then again died, and you'll get the same response you would if you had asked the question to the rock I was hit with.

 

[Z]

I am a rock.

 

[paximperium]

I am a rock.

There is no rock...only a spoon.

So why hasn't any of our dualist"just asking questions about consciousness" folks defined it yet?

 

[Piggy]

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

This poll needs more options.

Hey now, it's in the present tense. Don't you know what the definition of "are" are?

 

[Piggy]

The calls for someone to define "conscious" are interesting and curious. As if anyone here actually suspects that they may not, at the moment, actually be conscious (according to any usual and customary definition).

I seriously doubt that anyone here actually harbors any such questions.

 

[Maia]

Yes, although after a thirteen-hour day, I'm not always sure who has Alzheimer's anymore-- me or the patients. (Check: Yes, I do remember what a spoon is for.)