From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-04-26, Richmond  wrote:   
      
   >>> Some theorize that the purpose of consciousness is to allow   
   >>> us to do psychology, i.e. to have some insight into what   
   >>> it is like to be someone else. So in order to describe   
   >>> my own thoughts, imaginations, even hallucinations to   
   >>> someone else, I need to be conscious of them. I need to   
   >>> look at them objectively and imagine them as they could   
   >>> be someone else's.   
   >>   
   >> But what is all that conceptuality - i.e. hammering so much greater a   
   >> reality into gobs of tiny little notions - accomplishing?   
   >   
   > It is helping to understand what consciousness is, why   
   > it exists, where we are likely to find it, and how we   
   > recognise it.   
      
   Make sense. And yet "knowing" that seems about as relevant   
   to my experience of life as knowing how I balance on a bike   
   improves the experience of the ride: it doesn't. In fact,   
   entertaining that "knowing" while riding actually steals   
   attention away from aspects of the ride, e.g. the sights,   
   the feel of the airflow, the feel of the terrain, etc.   
      
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