Consciousness
By BourderHouse
@BourderHouse (749)
Philippines
March 13, 2007 7:38pm CST
I was thinking, conscience is experience... physical sensations, feelings, awareness of your own individuality, etc.
But everything experiences things in the same way, for example, I experience the sensation of being myself in the same way someone else experience that she is herself.
The way people are aware(the consciousness) is the same, the only difference is that while I am aware of being me, the other person experiences the sensation of being another being(herself).
The consciousness is the same, but those two persons are experiencing two different sensations(like pain and hapiness) with the same consciousness.
Suppose that I with MY consciousness for some reason experience the sensation of being another person. There will be no difference between my conscious experience of being another, or that person(whose individuality I am experiencing) being herself. Just the experiences matter.
Resuming, just our experiences make us different, but the consciousness is the same. Our individualities are like two diffferent sensations, like pain and hapiness.
What is your thought about this?
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4 responses
@aries_0325 (3060)
• Philippines
14 Mar 07
You are assuming that others experience "being" in the same manner. This has no support. I see, do I experience seeing in the same manner as everyone else? No, I am colorblind, I definitely do not experience sight as others do. Do people that are not colorblind experience blue in the same manner as others that are not colorblind? Not necessarily, but whatever they experience blue as has been labeled blue, and their experience of blue is consistent, and objects that are "blue" are labeled blue by everyone the same, this does not imply that the experience is the same.
I do not believe that everyone experiences anything the same as everyone else. I believe that in our communications we label things, and due to the labels we can communicate about events that may have similar external stimulus, but the internal experience may be nothing alike between individuals.
It is an error to assume that people experience things in the same manner, such is probably not the case. There exist plenty of examples of difference in experience given various states. Some people enjoy pain, is it really pain for them? Some people like myself are colorblind, do we really experience the same thing? Some people are serial killers, do we necessarily experience a sense of being in the same manner? Some people have mental disorders, do they experience being in the same manner as everyone else? I believe that no, we do not necessarily experience anything the same as any other individual, including the sense of being.
Upon inception, our cells begin diverging from everyone else, no two brains are alike. There is no reason to believe that experiences would be alike, only described similarly.
@tess1960 (2385)
• United States
14 Mar 07
To agree with yu, I would also add that twins, are the same and yet not. If you teach one twin that blue is blue and teach the other twn that yellow is blue....that is how they will percieve the color. Each twins consciouseness is different, not only by internal stimulous,growth, but by outer stimulos, surroundings and teachings.
@tess1960 (2385)
• United States
14 Mar 07
To agree with you, I would also add that twins, are the same and yet not. If you teach one twin that blue is blue and teach the other twin that yellow is blue....that is how they will percieve the color. Each twins consciouseness is different, not only by internal stimulous,growth, but by outer stimulous; surroundings and teachings. Is this not so...............
@tess1960 (2385)
• United States
14 Mar 07
To agree with you, I would also add that twins, are the same and yet not. If you teach one twin that blue is blue and teach the other twin that yellow is blue....that is how they will percieve the color. Each twins consciouseness is different, not only by internal stimulous,growth, but by outer stimulous; surroundings and teachings. Is this not so...............
@NatureBoy (493)
• Singapore
14 Mar 07
Consciousness relates to other things like past experiences and knowledge too.
For example, If I were to put you on top of building and ask you jump down with ropes, that would have triggered your consciousness to stop yourself and try to run away. But if I asked someone else with the experience to do it, he would have just jumped, cos he done it before.
Your feelings of fear, unknowing and anxiousness are felt with anxiety, excitement and thrill from the other person.
@GilbrosTMPro (323)
• Philippines
14 Mar 07
My Consciousness suffers emotional disturbances, foggy mental thinking, confusion,i need somebody help to manage this my problem. It bother me a lot through my entire life.
