Are You Conscious?

[Z]

(Check: Yes, I do remember what a spoon is for.)

Hey, Maia... you have something shiny dangling out of your nose there... just thought you should know.

 

[paximperium]

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.

If we use the most colloquial meaning of conscious, sure. Just being awake means conscious.

But you know well enough that is not what Malerin means when he asks this question since conscious is an exceedingly complex thing.

 

[Ron_Tomkins]

I am a rock.

I loved you in The Scorpion King!

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

I am a rock.

And I am an island.

 

[Z]

I loved you in The Scorpion King!

Thanks! I didn't think anyone noticed. I was credited once as 'Third rock from the left, eighteen feet from front of field of view, next to the small pebble', but they decided crediting all us non-conscious rocks would be too expensive.

Oh well...

And Gord - you may never cry, but I feel no pain. Nyah.

 

[Malerin]

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.

And yet... nearly half the respondents aren't sure they're conscious. Have to agree with Plumjam- it doesn't look good when a bare majority of a skeptical (supposedly scientifically minded) group of people don't know they're conscious. And a significant minority deny their own consciousness.

And religious people are weird?

 

[AkuManiMani]

If life is the reality and death the illusion then, yes.

If death is the reality and life is the illusion then, no.

Hmm...Thats an interesting answer

 

[Dunstan]

And yet... nearly half the respondents aren't sure they're conscious. Have to agree with Plumjam- it doesn't look good when a bare majority of a skeptical (supposedly scientifically minded) group of people don't know they're conscious. And a significant minority deny their own consciousness.

And religious people are weird?

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Oh, please.

You're obviously playing some juvenile "gotcha" game, where you want people to agree that they are "conscious" without specifying a definition, and then you intend to impose your own definition of that and pretend that everyone agreed to it. And now you're pouting because people aren't playing along.

 

[I Ratant]

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Oh, please.

You're obviously playing some juvenile "gotcha" game, where you want people to agree that they are "conscious" without specifying a definition, and then you intend to impose your own definition of that and pretend that everyone agreed to it. And now you're pouting because people aren't playing along.

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This was a joke thread?

 

[Hokulele]

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

It is far more likely that a group of people will agree on a single definition of hungry, but please note, Beer! is always an appropriate response.

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

Heh, go ahead and try it some time.

 

[Frank Newgent]

Conscious of... Jimi Hendrix

 

[The Drain]

Don't you know what the definition of "are" are?

Spelling mistake: Please note there is a missing 's'.

 

[Belz...]

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

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

Well, seeing as you can be wrong about being hungry...

 

[Belz...]

And yet... nearly half the respondents aren't sure they're conscious. Have to agree with Plumjam- it doesn't look good when a bare majority of a skeptical (supposedly scientifically minded) group of people don't know they're conscious. And a significant minority deny their own consciousness.

This is exactly like theists who say that it "doesn't look good when people deny their experiences of God". They simply CANNOT be skeptical of their own claims and they cannot understand that other people may see things differently.

 

[Malerin]

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Oh, please.

You're obviously playing some juvenile "gotcha" game, where you want people to agree that they are "conscious" without specifying a definition, and then you intend to impose your own definition of that and pretend that everyone agreed to it. And now you're pouting because people aren't playing along.

Asking if you think you're conscious is a "gotcha game"? Would it help if I answer it first?

Yes. Yes, I am conscious.

 

[Malerin]

This is exactly like theists rational people who say that it "doesn't look good when people deny their experiences of God". They simply CANNOT be skeptical of their own claims consciousness and they cannot understand that other people may see things differently think they're p-zombies.

Absolutely.

 

[Darat]

...snip... Yes, I am conscious.

And what definition are you using?

 

[Myriad]

I am conscious of certain things. Is that good enough? Do you care what those things are?

Without the direct objects, asking me if I'm conscious is kind of like asking me whether I'm authorized.

Respectfully,
Myriad

 

[Belz...]

Absolutely.

Instead of altering my posts to fit with your own opinions, why don't you adress what I said ? Could it be because I was right ?

 

[Beerina]

[X] Far too often for my own preference.