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Re:Blindsight: Some people who have lost their vision find a... by themgt on Monday September 28, 2015 @12:52PM (#10291426)
Worth trying to differentiate between "consciousness", which I think it's obvious cats and many other animals have, and the human "voice inside your head" / narrative self, which is much more a tower of babel built on symbolic cards, which is a very recent human invention, and arguably that moreso than "consciousness" is what can cause us so much harm.
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Re:Blindsight: Some people who have lost their vision find a... by mirimir on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @08:40PM (#10300944)
That's a good point. I was thinking of narrative self. And I am conscious of my narrative self, so they're distinct. So arguably they're all levels in a self-referential stack.
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Re:Blindsight: Some people who have lost their vision find a... by KingMob on Monday September 28, 2015 @02:15PM (#10291986)
Exactly. Perceptual awareness does not require self-consciousness.
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