This is the sort of theory that sounds really interesting, but most likely amounts to nothing more than a metaphor. If anyone disagrees with this characterization, I must only ask, what exactly have we learned here, and how could it be applied to anything in the real world?
So we now know that consciousness is the situation of having control over one’s internal mechanisms, and that this requires knowing the essentials about how these mechanisms work in what situation. But what is this “control”? The question has merely been pushed back, with the metaphor as no more than byplay, until we realize nothing has been answered, and “control” is the new word to be analyzed. We know nothing we didn’t know before.
This is the sort of theory that sounds really interesting, but most likely amounts to nothing more than a metaphor. If anyone disagrees with this characterization, I must only ask, what exactly have we learned here, and how could it be applied to anything in the real world?
So we now know that consciousness is the situation of having control over one’s internal mechanisms, and that this requires knowing the essentials about how these mechanisms work in what situation. But what is this “control”? The question has merely been pushed back, with the metaphor as no more than byplay, until we realize nothing has been answered, and “control” is the new word to be analyzed. We know nothing we didn’t know before.