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Is consciousness something distinct from self-consciousness?
"For the first time, I wrote for myself, it was stream of consciousness, something of that sort," he said.
This would depend, however, on a major breakthrough in public consciousness, something theoretically possible for which there is little evidence at present.
What if the mask, the drill and the needle were mere blips in an incoherent dream and you could erase those images from your consciousness, something like an eternal sunshine of the spotless mouth?
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He transforms self-consciousness—"something we all have within ourselves"—into art that serves a bigger purpose for society.
Our best destiny, as planetary cohabitants, is the development of what has been called "species consciousness" - something over and above nationalisms, blocs, religions, ethnicities.
This riven consciousness is something that Bostridge conveys supremely well.
But it also gets to the heart of consciousness as something located and particular.
Or, he asks, "How do we know that a newborn baby is conscious?" Perhaps consciousness is something that doesn't begin at birth, he said, but gradually emerges.
Consciousness is something neither science nor philosophy can adequately define and it takes a living being to experience it, so perhaps someone who spent a short while medically dead is our best insight into post-life.
While it might one day be possible to download all of our thoughts, whether we would still truly exist is a matter for philosophy, with the nature of consciousness being something we may never be able to truly define, quantify and assess.
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