"Pål Iversen" <ppr.sogndalsregionen at sf.telia.no> wrote:
> So maybe it's time to define "consciousness"?
Consciousness is sentience, emotions, feelings,
sensations etc. Consciousness really can't be
defined anymore than the taste of cinamen can
be defined or the color blue. Semantics is ciruclar.
At some point it all comes down to direct experience.
> Do you ask: "Are ants aware of themselves"?
The word "aware" has too different meanings. One
meaning is the superficial meaning. A robot can
proprogramed to be aware of its dimensions and
the place it takes up in space, this is a different
kind of awareness from that which humans experience.
Humans are not just aware of their thoughts in a
mechanical manner. Humans have subjective
awareness. Actually, there are no words to explain
human awareness, it is something that must be
experienced. But clearly humans are aware of
themselves in a differrent way then a video camera
pointing at its image in a mirror is aware of itself.
