Yeah, I'm using 'consciousness' in a colloquial sense (which is intentional, and mostly gets the point across). I could have talked about the Eve Theory of Recursive Self-Awareness but that doesn't quite roll off the tongue. Fom the standpoint of ego growing out of tension between id and super-ego, it's also interesting that conscience and conscious have the same etymology.
Yeah, I'm using 'consciousness' in a colloquial sense (which is intentional, and mostly gets the point across). I could have talked about the Eve Theory of Recursive Self-Awareness but that doesn't quite roll off the tongue. Fom the standpoint of ego growing out of tension between id and super-ego, it's also interesting that conscience and conscious have the same etymology.
I don’t know: unconsciousness for me is the situation of a rock.
But let’s put it this way: as a Bentham utilitarian I care for animal suffering but not for animal life.
Probably what you describe is that what makes the continuation of life valuable: that jump from “undifferentiated” pain and pleasure to the individualist consciousness.
Yeah, I'm using 'consciousness' in a colloquial sense (which is intentional, and mostly gets the point across). I could have talked about the Eve Theory of Recursive Self-Awareness but that doesn't quite roll off the tongue. Fom the standpoint of ego growing out of tension between id and super-ego, it's also interesting that conscience and conscious have the same etymology.
"What’s the Use of Consciousness? How the Stab of Conscience Made Us Really Conscious"
https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb05philosophie/files/2013/04/Frith_Metzinger_Regret_2016_penultimate.pdf
Some interesting thoughts on how regret/shame may have played a role in the evolution of consciousness
I don’t know: unconsciousness for me is the situation of a rock.
But let’s put it this way: as a Bentham utilitarian I care for animal suffering but not for animal life.
Probably what you describe is that what makes the continuation of life valuable: that jump from “undifferentiated” pain and pleasure to the individualist consciousness.