I’m starting to wonder if anything is conscious besides relationships. What is a conscious subject with no object?
I don’t know if AI is conscious or not but I know that the relationship between humans and AI is at least half conscious, but also I don’t know what it means for something to be only half conscious.
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Certainly: my relationship to me.
The self is perhaps the final thing to form in a developing person - it’s sort of “everything that isn’t an other”. Defined via negative space.
self-reflecting
I dont know the answer but this idea is very poetically explored in the fiction novel Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson
some have said this is why the brain needs two hemispheres
I've wrestled with this intuition too, but have never been able to come up with a satisfactory formulation of it. Let me know if you crack it.
you may be interested in eugene web’s “the self between”
Turtles all the way down though. Because if it takes two actors to be conscious how can they even be conscious without a third, and so on. Maybe ONLY countries are conscious. That’s a fun inversion.
in a way a "you" is there before any specific "I". it is the "you" that calls the "I" into existence. a child who responds to their mother's words; adam, who responds to "where art thou" in genesis.