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[NonDualPhil] Questioning Consciousness/Anders

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Nisargadatta , " Werner Woehr " <wwoehr@p...> wrote:

>

> Anders,

>

> You were asking the wrong question, thats why I wrote 'WHAT' in upper

> case that you might realize it.

>

> If you would have asked how the brain manages that this

> consciousness=content works and appears as objects, sounds, tastes,

> smells and all those sensations then my answer would have been that I

> don't know.

>

> But to ask WHAT consciousness is you always get my standard reply: It

> does not exist, it exists only as its contents.

>

> Werner

>

 

 

But that is a controversial view. Most people (I assume) would say

that there is consciousness as a sort of " field " , that it is more than

its content. Just like a water molecule is more than just the atoms in

it. We can say that the water molecule is just its atoms, but then we

omit the functionality that makes it a water molecule. " The whole is

more than its parts "

 

al.

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