Hey! Look at that! Morgue was right! Bow down and worship him! And not me him but... Wait, no. Don't worship him. Worship me. Always worship me. And don't don't worship me Hym but don't worship him him. I mean it!
Hym "Hey, look! The Hoffman guy says the same thing about consciousness that Morgue says! But I doubt we'll all be laughing becuase ya'll are talking a lot of shit."
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Get the conscious identity mug.The branch of thought that grapples with the "hard problem" of why there is subjective experience at all. Why isn't the universe just unconscious matter following physical laws? Why is there "something it's like" to be a bat, a human, or possibly a very advanced AI? Consciousness philosophy asks whether a perfect simulation of a mind would actually feel like anything, whether colors exist in the world or just in your head, and whether you can be certain that anyone else is conscious or if they're all just very convincing philosophical zombies. It's the field that makes you suspicious of everyone, including yourself.
Example: "Lying in bed, he entered a state of consciousness philosophy. 'I am aware that I am aware,' he thought. 'But am I aware that I am aware that I am aware? And if so, does that awareness have a color? And if it does, is that color the same for everyone, or am I alone in a universe of private qualia?' He then became aware that he needed to pee and the philosophy ended."
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Get the Consciousness Philosophy mug.The specific analysis of group behavior among beings who are all, individually, aware that they are aware, leading to strange social dynamics like "pretending to listen while thinking about lunch" and "the collective pretense that we're not all going to die." It explores how groups develop shared illusions (like "this meeting is productive"), how social rituals create temporary alterations in collective awareness (like the moment of silence before a concert starts), and why humans are the only species that gathers in large numbers to watch other humans pretend to be people they're not (theater, movies, politics).
Example: "At the company-wide town hall, a fascinating example of consciousness sociology occurred. Everyone in the room knew the CEO's optimistic projections were fiction, and the CEO knew they knew, and they knew he knew they knew. Yet everyone collectively pretended to believe, creating a shared layer of meta-awareness that no one acknowledged but everyone experienced. It was consciousness stacked upon consciousness, and it was exhausting."
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