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Dinesh club

Posted: 19 Jul 2013

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Consciousness and Introduction •
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Susan Blackmore •

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. . . . . You drive on a well known route, say to work or to a friend’s house. On one occasion you are acutely aware of all the passing trees, people, shops and traffic signals. Another day you are so engrossed in worrying about consciousness that you are completely unaware of the scenery and your own actions. You only realize, on arriving at your destination, that you have driven inall that way unaware of what you were doing. You have no recollection at all of having passed through all those places and made all those decisions. Yet you must, in some sense, have noticed the traffic signals because you did not drive through a red light, run over the old lady on the crossing, nor stray onto the wrong side of the road. You applied the breaks when necessary, maintained a reasonable driving distance from the car in front, and found your usual route. So, considering the red light, what makes the difference its being in ‘consciousness’ and ‘out of consciousness?” ~ Page 58

CONSCIOUSNESS AN INTRODUCTION
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