But to truly understand this, let's talk about what unconsciousness is and its definition. It reads the following: 'Being uninformed or unaware.' Now the uninformed part you can probably get past quick, but read unaware. 'Aware is sometimes used as in aware of your surroundings, or concsious. So what's that then? What's being conscious. Well the definition for that is being aware of what's around you, catching onto what's happenning. So you could say that it is a feeling of true existenance, of being. But phisically, really, what, why,when, how, or whatever other reason question, is consciousness there?
Well actually, nobody on Earth right now can tell you - oh, and neither can the guys on the ISS or something else. When your conscious you are beholding things; though the fact that they are real is questionable. We have now got extremeley good tools and computer game programming techniques on our side and are also starting to realize their true potenial against us. If eventually you could simulate entire universes up till a certain far, far away point, then you could maybe even simulate conciousness. That's seperate, but this whole story is to explain something else.We may doubt everything that has ever existed or that is around us, but no matter what, we cannot doubt the fact that there is an 'I' doing the doubting in this situation. This was the thought process of Rene Descartes, the famous 18th century mathimatician and philosipher. As he famously quoted it, 'I think, therefore I am.' with 'am' meaning that you exist. Therefore, we can conclude that all conscious creatures know that they exist. Every conscious creature cannot conclude this in the simulation argument, but that's for another time.
When 'you', as your physical body shows, are at your first birthday, are 'you you' at your first birthday? This might be compared to the state of death, as is often done. You could call death our final sleep, our last slip, all those things. It is our ultimate, enigmatic unconscious trip, never to be conscious ever again. But this is only a close comparism, not an exact, perfect tie. When a guillotine blade severes someone's head, it is till conscious without a body for 7 WHOLE SECONDS!! Count that with me one.... two..... three..... four...... five....... six...... seven....... long for a 'dead' person, right? What about sleep, what is it? Is it like a conscious death, in which we awake again. Another thing; if people are conscious, how do we know? Now we also have robots that can seem to perfectly mimic humans in most aspects, so how do we know that anything beyond our questioning, thinking machine in our head is real, even this article that you are reading?
Unconsciousness is something really weird and hard to understand, or grasp, or have conscious knowledge about just because of the true internal nature of the things invlved in this question. And so is it even possible to find out anything about the true nature of what is physically causing 'consciousness'? Probably yes, eventually we will have these answers, and we will figure it out. Humans are a clever bunch after all( yourself included, of course:). But on the philisophical side - most of thus text - nobody has any idea about anything.
Keep reading,
Yours sincerely,
Submitted: March 01, 2018
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