...> news:26ce7897-ad36-4cd2-921f-8fed020dcc2e@73g2000hsx.googlegroups.com... Consciousness is a subjective label. In my opinion "consciousness" is...> Without "language" there is no "consciousness". The more sophisticated the "language" the more ...". Interesting opinion. Is there consciousness in Silence? Be silent and listen. ...

... message news:26ce7897-ad36-4cd2-921f-8fed020dcc2e@73g2000hsx.googlegroups.com... Consciousness is a subjective label. In my opinion "consciousness" ... Without "language" there is no "consciousness". The more sophisticated the "language" the ... "consciousness". Interesting opinion. Is there consciousness in Silence? Be silent and listen. [Doing a...

Consciousness is a subjective label. In my opinion "consciousness" is the application of "language". Without "language" there is no "consciousness". The more sophisticated the "language" the more "consciousness".

... Without "language" there is no "consciousness". The more sophisticated the "language" the... being tied to the quality of 'conscious'. I can see how this is ..., the definition of being "more conscious" would have to be settled first....> Who is the "more conscious", one who drinks the water or one ... of attributes of mind such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, and the ability ...

... Without "language" there is no "consciousness". The more sophisticated the "language" the more "consciousness". Interesting. My new position here is: Humans always had ... being tied to the quality of 'conscious'. I can see how this is..., the definition of being "more conscious" would have to be settled first. Who is the "more conscious", one who drinks the water or...

... association that permits one to publicly label that very private feeling 'nostalgia'. The... the conceptual category to which "consciousness" and "subjective states" belong. We make a ... term has itself been mystified, unnecessarily. Consciousness is a property appearing in certain...hypothetical constructs, intervening variables, such as consciousness, empirical evidence (of the direct ...

... one to publicly label that very private feeling 'nostalgia'. The public term 'consciousness' is, I think, unique in the ... the idea of a first-person subjective perspective upon a world, correlated with ... my claim that the idea of consciousness has no empirical provenance. However, we ... the brain's connection to phenomenal consciousness, arguments could probably indeed be made ...

... behavior is not what is "labelled" consciousness. The behavior is merely ... one of those subjective states. The concept of "consciousness" functions logically...as evidence for the talent. "Consciousness" works much the same way...them. Chalmers thinks the term "consciousness" refers to a mystical "what...applies to public phenomena, and consciousness is entirely private, so language...

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... argument that the brain *generates* a subjective perspective, Nothing is generated. I don...the brain. I used to imagine consciousness was like throwing the switch on...* a fact. We have words to label things and words to label...is why there should be a subjective perspective associated with this process. ...kind of constraints on the content subjective experience we can best (only?) ...