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Re: What phenomenon is consciousness? - 06-07-2006, 05:48 PM
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I'm curious how to classify consciousness. What to you guys think?
Robert, we must also take in the other side of the issue, also___as Daniel Dennett has stated, "Consciousness is just a subjective illusion." I personally think consciousness is no more than brain and memory states, i.e., consciousness is like a religion___it's not needed for the mind to function___so is it real? History has shown every time we add something that's not absolutely required, we create new mythologies. I simply see consciousness as emergent brain and memory states... At the same time, I have no problem using the word to communicate with others, as it is the average accepted linguistics... Does such linguistics create our idea of consciousness...?

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