From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Fri, 26 Apr 2024, Richmond wrote:   
      
   > oldernow  writes:   
   >   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
      
   I agree! Defining the problem is always a good starting point if you want   
   to do some serious philosophizing.   
      
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