Emotions fit well with the Jewish and Catholic explanation with
the person having a soul, body and spirit. Extrapolating, i could
say that it's the soul that enables humans n animals to emote.
If tat is the case, why does a person having brain
injury/damage/diesease graudally lose their consciousness and
intellectual ? A person can have serious trauma such as losing his
legs/arms yet still maintain full consciousness or "soul" as before
but in the case of the brain, he lose tat consciousness. Worse
still, with medicine and recovery to the brain, it is shown tat men
recover back tis consciousness. Having a soul cannot answer tis. A
kid with down syndrome has geenrally poorer consciousness compared
with normal people. Why is tat so ? The soul is faulty ?
consciousness. It's like knowing that you are being. Example, a
computer can do stuff, but do they have individualism? Do they have
self-awareness?
In studies, some scholars try to proof consciousness by theorizing
that if an animal can see recognize itself in its reflection, it
has consciousness. Seems a bit dodgy if u ask me. As i find the
construct to not be a yes/ no thing, but more of different levels
of consciousness.
hmm, i still think i am not explaining it properly.
If u ask me, consciousness is a natural progression from
improving intellectual. I think u need to define wat is
consciousness for us, because an animal able to realise the
reflection is itself is a clear proof it is aware of its existence.
As intellectual develop, consciousness become better and more
complex. Intellectual improves, perception on environment improve,
aware of its existence. Consciousness is directly link with
intellectual. Can u provide an example tat show contrary to the
previous statement ? It do not have to be divine and it
simply can be natural.
i think the best definition is an awareness of self. i know i am
living, i know what i am doing now and i can plan for what i am
doing tomorrow. am i geeting closer to a definition that satisfy
u?
Might as well say men is able to use machine and why doesn't
animals use machine. Simply because men have higher intellectual
tat is why they have a more complex consciousness. Monkeys and apes
and dolphin has shown to have higher intellectual and tat is why
the r more likely to have self awareness. A wise person, perheps
the previous president of USA with dementia will gradually lose the
ability to know wat he is doing, plan for tomorrow etc. In fact
they may end up eating sh!t and forget he just eat 10 minutes ago
and wanna eat more. Surely tat has fail in your consciousness
criteria.
