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Philip Goff

  • MWENYA IIhar citeratför 2 år sedan
    we are embodied creatures and we relate to one another through and with our bodies. But it is consciousness that defines the identity of the person.
  • MWENYA IIhar citeratför 2 år sedan
    Fundamentally we know a person in terms of their feelings and thoughts, and the quirks of their personality.
  • MWENYA IIhar citeratför 2 år sedan
    Perhaps one day in the future it will be possible to survive the death of the body by uploading one’s mind onto a computer, making it possible to talk to grandma via email long after her body has rotted in the ground.
  • MWENYA IIhar citeratför 2 år sedan
    in tragic cases of permanent coma, the living body can seem nothing more than a memorial to the person who once was.
  • MWENYA IIhar citeratför 2 år sedan
    Consciousness is also the source of much that is of value in existence. Without consciousness, the universe would still be just as immense and awe-inspiring. But without a conscious mind to appreciate its majesty, is there really any value in the existence of all that stuff? It is our experiences that make life worth living: exhilarating pleasures, sweeping emotions, subtle thoughts. Without consciousness none of these things is possible.
  • MWENYA IIhar citeratför 2 år sedan
    “Cogito ergo sum” or “I think, therefore I am.”
  • MWENYA IIhar citeratför 2 år sedan
    Nothing is more certain than consciousness, and yet nothing is harder to incorporate into our scientific picture of the world.
  • MWENYA IIhar citeratför 2 år sedan
    Consciousness is fundamental to what we are as human beings. This is not to undermine the importance of the body:
  • MWENYA IIhar citeratför 2 år sedan
    consciousness is the only thing we know for certain is real. I can’t know for certain that there really is a world out there. Perhaps I’m actually in the Matrix
  • MWENYA IIhar citeratför 2 år sedan
    encapsulated in a vat of chemicals being fed information about a nonexistent virtual world by computers that are using me as an energy source.
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