A Philosophical quesiton..

[Tocsin_786]

if your mind can recognize and knows that its a mind and can form thoughts and stuff like that, how did that come to be? how did our brains/minds realize that we have such a thing.

 

think about it

[Guest]

Magic.

[Guest]

Time and luck.

[Unhelpful]

42.

 

And also because humans like to name things. Humans also question a lot of shit. "How can I remember?" "How can I describe my inner voice?" "What can I name the idea that I am now conceiving?" 

[Flight1sim]

It's the way our brain works, we want to "blame" or "thank" someone for doing or being something. it naturally chooses the "magical" or obvious answer, thats just the way i vew it! ;D

 

(also, yea that first sentence makes no sense right? Jeez im tired)

[Enderman]

its called self awareness and is a evolutionary neurological process which requires high levels of refinement and natural selection

[Snickerzz]

horses told us

[Tocsin_786]

horses told us

what else did they tell us?

[Volbet]

Not so much a philosophical question. It's more a question about evolutionary psychology.

Roughly speaking, humans are, like most other animals, pattern seekers. We survive(d) by seeing patterns in the world around us. 

"People who eat the green barries die, that must meen I will die if I eat the green barries" and so forth.

 

At some point, we didn't have to spend so much time stressing about survining, so humanity began doing other things, including philosophy.

It wasn't a coincendence that philosophy started in ancient Greece and China.

Humans didn't begin to see them selfs as "minds" untill Homer and the sophists. They descibed humans as concious beings and placed us in the world.

This idea evolved with Plato and Aristotele, that placed humans in special place, that was seperate from nature. They began the tradition of thinking about how humans were special, and thereby thinking about "mind".

If you read Aristotele, he will tell you, that humans are special becuase we have "mind". 

 

Thereby we began identifying "minds", and recognize ourself as "minds". 

[Snickerzz]

what else did they tell us?

it is forbidden to say as humans have long broken the bonb between

[Tocsin_786]

it is forbidden to say as humans have long broken the bonb between

i blame my little ponies.

[Guest Philosophy]

Not so much a philosophical question. It's more a question about evolutionary psychology.

Roughly speaking, humans have are, like most other animals, pattern seekers. We survive(d) by seeing patterns in the world around us. 

"People who eat the green barries die, that must meen I will die if I eat the green barries" and so forth.

 

At some point, we didn't have to spend so much time stressing about survining, so humanity began doing other things, including philosophy.

It wasn't a coincendence that philosophy started in ancient Greece and China.

Humans didn't begin to see them selfs as "minds" untill Homer and the sophists. They descibed humans as concious beings and placed us in the world.

This idea evolved with Plato and Aristotele, that placed humans in special place, that was seperate from nature. They began the tradition of thinking about how humans were special, and thereby thinking about "mind".

If you read Aristotele, he will tell you, that humans are special becuase we have "mind". 

 

Thereby we began identifying "minds", and recognize oursekf as "minds". 

Well said. 

[KemoKa]

No idea. That's what philosophy is for, to find out what we are.

I personally think it's something to do with the spirit or the soul, but I'm not sure.

Philosophy is fascinating... you can go in all sorts of directions. It's a good testament as to how little we know of ourselves, let alone everything else.

[Yummychickenblue]

i blame my little ponies.

Wel we have also made them tote us around for the past few centuries.

[Delusional Phil]

Because we are concious of ourselves probably . If we think in our mind up a brain and in that brain it is thinking about what would happen in a brain than that brain imagine something up . That would be brain-ception @.@ 

 

But seriously , we are all brain inside a jar that has the nervous system controlling our activities , including this line . What makes ourselves us is based on the fact that our brain is alive and is taking in information from the outer world ... If I were to connect my brain to a computer that can read brain signals and have a sufficient body close or beyond my old body . Am I the same person to everyone else ? 

 

P/S : I feel weird after writing this . It is my brain concious about my brain being there make me feel this weird ? 

[Trik'Stari]

The better question is, is everyone conscious, or are you the only conscious person and everyone else is just the real life equivalent of NPC's?

[Volbet]

The better question is, is everyone conscious, or are you the only conscious person and everyone else is just the real life equivalent of NPC's?

The solipsistic position is a very interesting ponder, but it's also very unproductive.

If we take a cartesian approach to the question of other people, it will result in the conclusion, that no other being can be said to exists.

In essence, this is the most logical position a person can take, since there is no logical way of proving the existance of other minds than ones own. 

 

However, this is a very unproductive stance, since the logic would also apply to everything, that isn't the perceiving mind I.E. yourself.

At that point one would live in Berkeley-esque idealist world, where everything is the product of mind, and not ´reality´.

Basically, it would lead to epistomological nihilism, where nothing is true, since everything is subjective.

 

You can get out of the solipsistic position in a variaty of way, but I think I would go too off topic, if I began explaining them all.

[Tocsin_786]

Wel we have also made them tote us around for the past few centuries.

this calls for war, prepare the unicorns for battle. 

[GuruMeditationError]

Mind is a product and function of the Brain. Why is it as it is? Because it is as it is.