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Re:Aggregate solution to the problem of other mind 2 Years, 2 Months ago
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The nature of knowledge?
From your OP:
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Is it not therefore possible to aggregate the knowledge of all conscious beings?
That is, while we don't know on an individual basis that all conscious beings know that they are conscious, if we consider an aggregation of all conscious beings, we as a group do have this knowledge.
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Some idea of the scope and nature of
this knowledge "we as a group do have" would be helpful.
It is very cryptic what this
knowledge is. Examples? Areas?
It seems really fuzzy and new-agey-race-memory right now.
That's only a guess, though.
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Re:Aggregate solution to the problem of other mind 2 Years, 2 Months ago
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leonardomenderes wrote:
The nature of knowledge?
From your OP:
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Is it not therefore possible to aggregate the knowledge of all conscious beings?
That is, while we don't know on an individual basis that all conscious beings know that they are conscious, if we consider an aggregation of all conscious beings, we as a group do have this knowledge.
"
Some idea of the scope and nature of
this knowledge "we as a group do have" would be helpful.
It is very cryptic what this
knowledge is. Examples? Areas?
It seems really fuzzy and new-agey-race-memory right now.
That's only a guess, though.
No, it's definitely not the new-agey-race-memory type of thing I have in mind.
The knowledge I have in mind is quite simply the kind of knowledge one has by virtue of being conscious at all.
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Re:Aggregate solution to the problem of other mind 2 Years, 2 Months ago
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The knowledge I have in mind is quite simply the kind of knowledge one has by virtue of being conscious at all.
I thought there was something more. I stumbled.
Sorry about that. I should have known, with the
lower animal examples. It cannot be a very complex
knowledge, then. Sort of an "I am" feeling.
The intersection of common knowledge, insects to
worms to people, more than the aggregate.
"I am sad" would be way too complex for the examples.
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Re:Aggregate solution to the problem of other mind 2 Years, 2 Months ago
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leonardomenderes wrote:
The knowledge I have in mind is quite simply the kind of knowledge one has by virtue of being conscious at all.
I thought there was something more. I stumbled.
Sorry about that. I should have known, with the
lower animal examples. It cannot be a very complex
knowledge, then. Sort of an "I am" feeling.
Even that is overstating it Leonardo.
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Re:Aggregate solution to the problem of other minds 2 Years, 2 Months ago
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I am struck by the contrast between the idea that our own consciousness is one and perhaps the only thing we can be certain of, and the frequently made observation that we have no access to the experience of any other conscious beings.
Humans consciousness are formed from genetic traits and our personal experiences. Since our experiences may be similar but never entirely equal, thus unique, no one can have a consciousness like another.
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Re:Aggregate solution to the problem of other minds 2 Years, 2 Months ago
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Humans consciousness are formed from genetic traits and our personal experiences. Since our experiences may be similar but never entirely equal, thus unique, no one can have a consciousness like another.
All our consciousnesses arise from the same physical causes and from what everybody says, our experiences of similar phenomena are very similar.
And that stuff you linked to about the Kabbala was piffle.
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