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Author Topic:   Consciousness, thoughts anyone?
Stile
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Message 41 of 42 (547344)
02-18-2010 12:30 PM
Reply to: Message 10 by Dimebag
02-15-2010 8:26 PM


Careful
I like to jut my 2 cents in to make it look like I know what I'm talking about when I really have no idea at all.
Make of this what you will:
Dimebag writes:
As sensory depravation shows us, without some kind of external stimulus, the mind goes nuts for lack of a better word.
I'm not sure you can count on this as a robust conclusion. Although I can't see a problem with using it as a practical conclusion.
What I'm talking about is that the only consciousness we know of deals with external stimulus all the time. And when we remove that external stimulus, the mind goes nuts.
However, this only goes to show that once the mind is heavily accostomed to a certain functionality... then removing that functionality makes the mind go nuts.
Which aligns itself well with the idea of how people (who have conscious minds) are very good at becoming accostomed to a great variety of different things. As the saying goes "it's amazing what you can get used to."
The point I'm trying to make is that it may certainly well be possible (and perhaps somehow beneficial?) to have a conscious mind that does not "go nuts" from sensory depravation if the mind can somehow "grow accostomed" to such an environment.
Practically speaking, I have no idea how one would go about creating a "non-external stimulus" environment and develop a conscious mind therein. Maybe even some moral dilemmas would prevent such an experiment
However, I just think it's a bit of a leap-of-logic to robustly conclude that minds will go nuts without external stimulus. I only think this is true of minds that heavily depend upon external stimuli in the first place.
More of a "minds go nuts when quickly cut from an environtment they have grown accostomed to" sort of thing. Which is quite evident in many different experiments.

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