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>Conscious experience is a seamless unified whole. That's not necessarily true. We experience vision as a unified whole as well, but we have a blind spot as we
by fifnir 6y ago
>Conscious experience is a seamless unified whole.
That's not necessarily true. We experience vision as a unified whole as well, but we have a blind spot as well. How would you argue that consciousness is a seamless whole and not just the illusion of one?
- hackinthebochs 6y agoOur awareness of the outside world isn't seamless, e.g. our blindspot. But our experience of the outside world is seamless. This experience is normally what consciousness refers to, i.e. qualia.
- musingsole 6y agoYou also have an argument with saccades, not just the eye's blind spot. And in looking closely at electrical currents, is there really an entity or is it just a of collection independent electrons acting on each other? Still, to look at the current and imagine that collective action creates a higher order entity (like the water in a river) is really poetic -- even if it doesn't turn out to be the case.