Dan Goodman on Nostr: npub1jzgxd…ehc3a npub13hnp9…0fzrs I don't know, I'm just always a bit suspicious ...
npub1jzgxd3ylxrpqcr90zss3ttyuk20cr6y9r7ewz2hyauvr4n0xzs8sqehc3a (npub1jzg…hc3a) npub13hnp9glxqhhu0hk0ee2r2nxkgfj0xgxjlgmtk4tp6edn7f08762s70fzrs (npub13hn…fzrs) I don't know, I'm just always a bit suspicious of clean distinctions in neuroscience.
I'm not saying that if you forget something you're not conscious of it any more, but that every time you were talking or thinking about consciousness you weren't talking about the moment to moment process but the memory of it. So unless we hypothesise that the process of forming memories must reflect some real thing, then there's no other possible evidence to suggest the existence of the moment to moment process. Seems like a very strong assumption to make and one that seems unlikely to be true based on what we know about the brain and memory.
I'm not saying that if you forget something you're not conscious of it any more, but that every time you were talking or thinking about consciousness you weren't talking about the moment to moment process but the memory of it. So unless we hypothesise that the process of forming memories must reflect some real thing, then there's no other possible evidence to suggest the existence of the moment to moment process. Seems like a very strong assumption to make and one that seems unlikely to be true based on what we know about the brain and memory.