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There are different versions of panpsychism. You're a micropsychist (only constituents of rocks are conscious), I'm something else (not sure what to c...

I agree. However, I think philosophers of mind, including me, do use the word 'consciousness' in a perfectly normal sense. Indeed, it is the sense oft...

That's not what I would call consciousness. I'd call what we experience the content of consciousness, i.e. what we are conscious of.

That's interesting. Let's say that's true, that phenomenologically, there is a sharp distinction between dichromatic and trichromatic experience. And ...

No, I don't think we can. But we (or at least I) do understand what awareness is.

I too think it's a good question. So does Stephen Priest in this lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z10_6uaqVQc&list=PLCdW3jMJiDFAYG5-VFQy0eLyHq...

prothero What is the difference between protoconsciousness and consciousness?

newspeak or doublethink iirc

Thanks. Could you give an example of the usefulness of consciousness?

Why definitely?

Yes, intuitively that is my view.

Yeah, sorry about that. I just wanted a show of hands on the issue. Feel free to delete this thread any mods who are looking.

Thanks for your answers. You've all obviously thought about this a lot more than I have. Turns out my question glossed over a load of distinctions. I ...

I don't understand this at all. Can you elaborate?

I don't think so, but jgill might.

I don't think awareness implies self-awareness, i.e. awareness of awareness. I don't know what a rock might feel. Nothing very interesting I suspect.

I'm not sure what you mean, but if you mean aware that they are aware of being aware, then I doubt it. EDIT: I said the opposite of what I meant to sa...

OK, so in your terms, I am talking about awareness in this thread. I mean by 'consciousness' what you mean by 'awareness'. I'm a panpsychist in the se...

I heartily agree, and you are right to point out this contradiction between me and Block (at least in this bit you quoted, I can't find the original a...

I can't think of any examples of borderline cases of consciousness. If one thinks that consciousness emerges, say in the development of an embryo, the...

Because phenomenal consciousness does not admit of degree.

I've always been fine with the distinction between 'phenomenal consciousness' and other concepts of consciousness. The term has a very clear and strai...

This is just trolling. Obviously medical usage is not the only usage.

That aspect, property, function (or whatever) whereby its possessor is the subject of experiences. That sense is listed in most dictionaries in some f...

I don't think so. This is a huge difficulty that impedes conversations about consciousness - agreeing what the subject of enquiry is. My reply to @ern...

Thank you! Thank you! It has been so long since I have felt this appreciated. My father used to politely look at my childhood paintings and compliment...

That's interesting, I hadn't thought of the homunculus fallacy as being identical to begging the question, but maybe it is.

I heartily agree. Sometimes it's really hard to get people to accept that there are different definitions, and even if you do, to get them to talk abo...

I'll try. Clearly many intuitions, often derived from introspection, do turn out to be wrong. For example: I'm really angry with my wife because she d...

Sorry, I made a mistake here which is worth correcting as it is confusing otherwise. A good behaviourist would NOT define consciousness as behaviour, ...

Because the hard problem only applies to emergentism. I agree the hard problem is horrible. But the only way to make it go away is to ditch emergentis...

Indeed, all I can offer in terms of ideas and words are synonyms. 'Consciousness' is impossible to define except by appeal to consciousness, unfortuna...

Sentience, awareness, the capacity to feel, the capacity to experience.

Because consciousness, as a matter of definition, is not behaviour.

I don't think an explanation is possible in this case, where we think of 'explanation' as explaining one thing in terms of another (walking in terms o...

It's not just me though, it's every dictionary.

Lets take a less problematic example and compare it. "Neurons firing in such and such a way seem to cause walking." In this example, we can detect the...

I think it's right to place emergentism as the antithesis of panpsychism. I also think it is right that difficulties with emergentism are the main phi...

I don't think that's a how. I think it's an observation of a correlation. The explanation of this correlation is still wide open.

What do you think philosophy is about?

So one is aware of something hazy and indistinct? That's still awareness of something, which entails consciousness, no? One is conscious when one is a...

Why do you think panpsychism is true?

Could you give an example or two?

@jacksonsprat22 You haven't done any philosophy here. Philosophy is about argument and rational justification for beliefs. Why are you a panpsychist? ...

It depends if it's a name or a property. If A and B are two names for one thing, it makes no difference. If A and B are two properties (or sets of pro...

Sure, but there's still a fairly clear distinction between philosophy and science, even if it is blurry in places and shifts its ground. Generally, an...

I'm interested in what you think distinguishes philosophy from science. If you don't think it is reliance on physical evidence, what is it? Are you mo...

Verily it evolves. It evolves in light of what?

How can we prove that?

I don't think so. You damage what you are conscious of. And in more extreme cases, you damage your identity. Getting knocked out might be shutting dow...