Consciousness
 

How would YOU describe it?

It's like warm apple pie. :yum

I really don't see it as anything more than an awareness of internal and external stimuli or events. I think it's a mistake to even refer to it as if it were a unified whole, since it's just an abstraction.

I would describe consciousness as self awereness. For example, I look around and I see where I am. I know that I am here. I know that this is my environment.

Who agrees?

The self evident dialectic opposition between self and others.

If there is no heaven/hell i consider self awareness a curse cuz then u fear death :(

u sure do

I think of it as being able to ask myself why I am typing this naked.

You threw dialetic in there just for the hell of it, didn't you?

I prefer the necessarily true axiomatic opposition that upholds notions of the autonomous man.

You threw in "necessarily true axiomatic opposition that upholds notions of the autonomous man." just for the hell of it didn't you?

If you can't explain that sentence in simpler terms, I'll assume it's just more brine out your blowhole.

Yeah c'mon, provide arguments, people!

I shit therefore am.

Consciousness implies the ability to perceive. Perceptions are necessarily real by definition.

Consciousness seperates the individual from the group, as we can only perceive our own perceptions.

No I didn't. Any such basic duality is dialectic. If the self wasn't interactive with all else in it's context, then it would not be in said context. Dialectic opposition. What's so hard to understand about that?

Would you like some fries with that?


Seriously, what you said makes no sense. 'Upholds notions of the autonomous man'. ??

works for me :)

I didn't say that it didn't make sense. I said that you put the word in the sentence just for the hell of it.

Consciousness allows man to think of himself as an individual, outside of the collective. What's so hard to understand about that?

Consciousness is overrated. I'd rather sleep.

Your consciouse when your asleep right?

Uh...no. Tell me, what's the difference between sleeping and just resting?

Unreal. :o

You know you're fucking annoying, right?

If there were no "others" to be outside of, how would you be able to define yourself as an individual apart from them?