<div dir="auto"><div>I think we might be making a mistake in delineating parts of our brain or functions of our brain as being conscious our unconscious.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For how can we know whether the parts we consider unconscious are unconscious rather than separately consciousness, independent, other minds?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Or alternatively, how can we know that their processing, doesn't feed into and build up into one's present conscious state?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think brain bisection cases make clear there is the potential for many independent conscious minds or conscious processes to exist within a single skull. But we often mistake the part of the brain that can talk as being the only one that is conscious. Because, after all it's the only part we as outsiders can listen to.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There's a part of your brain that's monitoring and regulating your blood pressure. It's aware of your blood pressure, so it can't be a zombie. Is it consciousness and disconnected from the part of your brain that can talk, or is it unconscious? How could you distinguish between those two possibilities?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 17, 2022, 10:33 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">This is news to me. The cerebellum involved in social behavior? Wow. That's way down in the brain, far from consciousness. bill w</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;line-height:1;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:20px">The cerebellum is essential for sensorimotor control but also contributes to higher cognitive functions including social behaviors. from Neuroscience News</span><br></div></div>
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