Posted: Mar 06, 2010 11:41 am
I should have put the definition of consciousness in the opening post. I do not claim it is material or immaterial. My definition is theoretically neutral: philosophy/enough-the-end-all-definition-of-consciousness-t1559.htmlviralmeme wrote:Excuse me but you started the thread with "Proof: consciousness is not reducible to nonconscious things", so I have a prior claim as to proof of non-corporeal consciousness.
I agree that consciousness develops and is not created. Btw, the baby cannot see the mothers mouth and hear her words unless it is conscious in the first place.Consciousness is not created; rather it is a developmental process, an imprinting of the mothers consciousness onto the developing infant. We can see such processes in action in the growth and maturity of the average human being. From a newborn infant with as much consciousness necessary to feed itself and attract the attention of the mother. Such interactions promoting interaction with the environment and as the infant physically grows eventually leading to mobility and speech. Consciousness is not created so much as a developmental process, conjured into existence by the interaction between mother and child. One such instance being the pointing game that mothers play with their babies. Baby points, mother points and says 'car', baby looks at mothers mouth and attempts to imitate sound, and so on. Eventually intellectual faculties increase to such an extent that the said infant can engage in futile philosophizing on the Internet.