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Philosophical Zombies? (On Consciousness and Concepts)

April 12, 2020 by Joe Gray in Consciousness, Philosophy, Thoughts

Zombies aren't real so any reference to them as a legitimate metaphor for a being that acts like a human but has no internal conscious experience is nonsensical. The reason this metaphor is confusing and mostly useless is two-fold.

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April 12, 2020 /Joe Gray
conscious, consciousness, David Chalmers, mind, philosophical zombies, philosophy, subjective, thought experiment, thoughts, zombies, blog, blogger, thoughts on, metaphors, concepts
Consciousness, Philosophy, Thoughts

Thoughts on Consciousness and the Corpus Callosum

March 29, 2019 by Joe Gray in Thoughts, Rants, Psychology, Free Will, Balance

Consciousness is not singular. Our brain produces two consciousness potentials. They glide along the synapses representing a complex array of connections that may or may not contain meaning. They are like ethereal trains being ever created and ever changed by subconscious layers combining and cooperating to produce consciousness. Each side of the brain is capable of creating high fidelity conscious streams. Streams that, if focused on and stabilized, create what we call consciousness.

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March 29, 2019 /Joe Gray
brains, consciousness, corpus callosum, dreams, harmony, mind, music, philosophy, psychology, split brain, streams of consciousness, theory, theory of mind, thought experiment, thoughts, two brains, two minds
Thoughts, Rants, Psychology, Free Will, Balance

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