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Our consciousness is not who we are. Consciousness is only one aspect of the experience, and even if you grasp what causes consciousness, you still haven't addressed what you, the experiencer, are feeling.


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Don't waste your time. This article is deeply confused. Even if consciousness is just a brain-created illusion, who is experiencing the illusion? That experience is what we mean by consciousness in the first place, so this explains nothing.


Consciousness is the only thing we understand. We don't understand everything else.

consciousness may not be something to understand

but rather to discover through direct experience


Consciousness is simply the awareness of being a person, and of having experiences. Do you not have that? I mean you don’t always have it, sometimes you are asleep or maybe sedated, but right now (whenever that is for you) as you are reading this?

I mean, consciousness is obviously real. As conscious beings it is fundamentally the only thing we actually know is real. The confusion there comes from the fact that we can't prove our own consciousness to each other and we poorly understand what actually constitutes it.

Consciousness does not have to mean being "mentally" (intellectually) aware of what's going on. It's about experiencing stuff, and having a _sensation_

consciousness is dissimilar to awareness, in my limited understanding it is about feelings (experience) in itself and not about being aware of being aware about feelings.

We understand consciousness perfectly, being conscious beings an all. It's the physical world that doesn't make any sense.

We don’t have a definition of consciousness that allows you to recognize it.

Consciousness is something some beings experience. We have direct knowledge that it exists because we experience it. We can assign a word to this experience, but we can't define it objectively such that a non-conscious being would understand it. That doesn't mean it's useless to talk about this real experience we have. It just means we can never be entirely sure we're talking about the same thing.

Conscious means experiencing sensations of color, sound, pain in our mental construction of the world outside of us, or our internal thoughts. I don’t understand why people keep claiming they do t know what consciousness means. It’s spelled out clearly in the philosophical literature.

Consciousness is the internal subjective experience that one has.

I doubt that "with consciousness, we have experiences". I think consciousness is only an illusion.

OK, try to name at least something you consider an aspect of consciousness? I already don't have a clue again what we are even talking about. What is "consciousness" supposed to mean?


The fundamental problem is that I know I'm conscious because I feel conscious, but I have, by definition, no way of being sure you are conscious.

No one can define consciousness... so what is it we are taking about?

Consciousness as it’s being discussed is not intelligence or even the ability to reason about one’s own existence. Is both less and more than those things, really just different altogether. It is subjective experience itself, the inner world somehow projected for you by your mind. It is the experience of seeing and hearing, the feeling of an emotion.

We don't know what consciousness is OR what it's for. There is no theory of what a brain is capable of with consciousness vs without or if this is even a valid question.

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