Recent content by Dave223

something strange happened to me recently, although this is just an anecdotal story, so i appreciate that what i thought had happened may not have been the case. anyway, I've noticed that if my alarm clock is consistently set to say, 7 AM, i will wake up roughly around that time even if I've...

thanks for the replies everyone. I'm hoping to do a consciousness module at university next year, so I'm sure to have lots of questions! setAI- i read your reply; are you basically saying that the brain is more than the sum of its parts? because i guess that's where my confusion lies.

So then would you describe sound and colour as physical things? It does sound like nonsense to say something is "non-physical", but that's the only way I can put it, because I think sound is completely different to movement. If somehow every single conscious thing in the universe was to...

I know this is probably a huge question to ask, and would be surprised if anyone knew the answer. It is, in my opinion, a question that is key to the understanding of consciousness. My problem is this: I build a robot that behaves and looks exactly the same way as me. It is simply not...