It’s a very interesting question. I think it’s pretty straight-forward that ‘ourselves’ is a composite of ‘awarenesses’ with non-overlapping mutual awareness.
Some data with respect to inebriation:
drunk people would pass a Turing test, but the next morning when events are recalled, it feels like someone else’ experiences. But then when drunk again, the experiences again feel immediate.
when I lived in France, most of my socialization time was spent inebriated. For years thereafter, whenever I was intoxicated, I felt like it was more natural to speak in French than English. Even now, my French vocabulary is accessible after a glass of wine.
That is interesting, but not what I was trying to ask. I was trying to ask if there could be separate, smaller, less-complex, non-human consciousnesses inside every human, It seems plausible (not probable, plausible) that there are, and that we currently have no way of detecting whether that is the case.
It’s a very interesting question. I think it’s pretty straight-forward that ‘ourselves’ is a composite of ‘awarenesses’ with non-overlapping mutual awareness.
Some data with respect to inebriation:
drunk people would pass a Turing test, but the next morning when events are recalled, it feels like someone else’ experiences. But then when drunk again, the experiences again feel immediate.
when I lived in France, most of my socialization time was spent inebriated. For years thereafter, whenever I was intoxicated, I felt like it was more natural to speak in French than English. Even now, my French vocabulary is accessible after a glass of wine.
That is interesting, but not what I was trying to ask. I was trying to ask if there could be separate, smaller, less-complex, non-human consciousnesses inside every human, It seems plausible (not probable, plausible) that there are, and that we currently have no way of detecting whether that is the case.