Philosophical Speculations

I think that if we are to experience the consciousness of other people we would experience the greatest shock in our life for how different their world is compared to ours. Think only about the duck-rabbit image. Let's say that a person only saw ducks previous to seeing this image, and another perso...

Before reading the full topic, I will just answer the initial post. I think it has to do with what memory actually is. For example, when we read a word, we read it letter by letter, yet at the end it the experience changes and instead of remembering reading it letter by letter we remember reading it...

For ex., the perceptual structure that we discern in the rhythm, melody, harmony of music. I would say that reflects to us a higher order logical structure which precipitates into richly meaningful musical beats, notes, and chords, which we can all appreciate due to the shared meaning. I wouldn't c...

I'm not sure what you mean by logical structure. Can you give an example ?

That being said, when I searched for the word "thinking", only two instances came up and they both referred to your personal thinking about writing the paper. So I am wondering, what do you think is the relation between what you refer to as "consciousness" in the paper and what ...

I would like to present you my work on consciousness, which can be found here: https://philpeople.org/profiles/cosmin-visan If one is interested in my main ideas, they can be found in my latest paper "Meaning and Context: A Brief Introduction". If at certain points the reader feels the nee...