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Originally Posted by Coatsy
Fair enought 
Can I ask what benifits your getting from studying philosophy or what important things you've learnt from it ? Just curious
Btw I enjoyed your post on your thoughts of prostitution that you made a while ago, it was very interesting |
Philosophy is just extremely interesting once you get into it, addictive almost. For example, right now I'm studying the concept of qualia. Qualia are the experienced contents of consciousness, that is, the "what's it like"-ness of human experience.
The rather interesting (and hard) question is how actual experience can arise from matter. How is it possible that humans not only process information, act upon it, etc. (these things are commonly known as "the easy problem" in philosophy of mind), but also actually feel and experience their own consciousness (known as "the hard problem")? In other words, how does conscious experience arise from matter?
What I'm trying to do right now is to create an argumentation explaining why the combination of (self-)awareness and the capacity to have beliefs pertaining to the self is sufficient for consciousness, and why any structure with these characteristics will also have consciousness.
It may sound like a dull subject, but it seriously keeps me lying awake at night
