[ExI] Flash of insight...

Alan Grimes agrimes at speakeasy.net
Fri Oct 29 21:21:15 UTC 2010


We are all so comfortable in our own skins (in theory at least), that we
might all be missing a truly shocking revelation.

I mean think about it, if you were born with some kind of color
blindness, so you had trouble with the concepts of red and green because
they both looked yellow. Otherwise you would be entirely unaware of it.
Or night blindness, you might think that you simply can't see at night
because it's dark not because you have defective rod-receptors unless
you were tested for the condition.

>From all these descriptions it finally dawned upon me that we might be
seeing the same phenomenon here! We each have a perception of our own
consciousness but these perceptions might be radically different in ways
for which there are no words and in such a way that affects practically
nothing but how we perceive uploading.

Short of getting into DSM-IV definitions, what is it like to be you?

My own experience is a fairly fluid stream of consciousness which
operates at all waking hours, and even disrupts my sleep as it did last
night, too much on my mind! =P I have a fairly strong sense of mind-body
integration. I never feel that my limbs belong to someone else. I'm able
to divide my attention several ways but can only really work at one
thing at a time. I'm not sure what else would be relevant to add,
perhaps it will come out in discussion.


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