Great Film About Consciousness

Rating: 8/10 (26 May 2020)

You cannot substitute consciousness with intelligence, IQ, knowledge, intuition because consciousness is the substance of all of those things. You're focusing too much on the content and not the context. Science tries to create models of consciousness, but it's never going to work. You cannot do science without language and without concepts. It's a second order. You see the problem is you're trying to use a second order phenomenon to get at the first order. You got it backwards. The tricky thing about the implicit is that it cannot be pointed to because it holds all the pointers. Imagine if you were Mario from Super Mario. Now...can Mario use his finger to point at the pixels of the screen? No, because Mario is in a sort of dimension which is tangential to the pixels. Mario doesn't know about the pixels, he's made out of the pixels in the same way that my hand right now is inside consciousness. So my finger cannot point to consciousness because the finger itself cannot point outside it because it's made out of the pixels. No matter where Mario points, he's never going to be able to point out, because he's made of pixels. It's like your the fish, but consciousness is the water.