Alva Noë – Is Consciousness an Illusion?

15 thoughts on “Alva Noë – Is Consciousness an Illusion?”

1. Maybe conscience is a "knowledge" gained from observation. So therefore we can only experience what we are observing at any given time. Also this explains time. Time in a sense is only experienced when something is observed. You can't experience time until it has become the past in a sense.

2. Conscience is interaction just like a force is interaction. There is no conscience without inner and outter world. Its like a field of interaction of our brain and other things and brains. Our brain is just one side of equation in the puzzle of consciousness. The other side is whole Universe.

3. I think that both of you are stating the same facts about Conciousness. Even actually that you are both correct through-out this entire conversation. But it's strange that you are missing each other's view by mere millimetres; just simply framing your questions better, you could be on the same side. It's also simultaneously absurdly hilarious how the questions we choose to frame are based on our consciousness.

4. The "self" is an illusion, not the "consciousness"

5. I'd never come across Externalism before. Surely if part of my conciousness is present in the environment I'm concious of, then if someone else is present in the same environment does that mean our consciousnesses intersect? If that's so, surely we should be able to share experience and awareness directly? I'm not even sure what that would mean.

   You'd think that if such a theory was even remotely correct or useful, it should be testable by comparing concious experiences due to the manipulation of shared real environments and shared experiences in virtual environments.

6. Watching Robert's various interview I have concluded the hard problem is not only about consciousness – it actually exists in just about any branch of science. No branch of science has any definite answer.

7. I disagree that reality is only outside of us! cmon! People, just because they are on youtube, doesn't mean they are correct. It's one opinion of many.

8. Question: if my eyes, nose, ears, and mouth were located on my knee, would I think that my consciousness is located in my knee?

9. what do you mean "the stars I see after I hit my head aren't real"? Not real in relation to?
   Of course they are real. I see REAL starts

10. bs artist

11. Yea but the point is that it seems possible to be conscious without any external stimuli

12. Translated, is God real, or is it made up in our heads and should we just
    ignore it says lost,
    The Faithful servant replys, Oh he's real and those who deny him are in their condition because they have turned their backs on him by clinging on to their illusion.

13. I feel mental vs material is not sufficient to explain reality. I am tending towards an infinitarian viewpoint.

14. Even if consciousness is an "illusion" – who or what is having that illusion? Going back one step (real or imagined) doesn't get to the heart of the matter…

15. Consciousness is information processing.
    When you stop processing you're unconscious.
    You can be processing and not conscious but it's impossible to be conscious and
    not processing.

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