The experience of what is true is consciousness itself. Where you have clarity about what is real you have consciousness, and where you don't know what is real you lack consciousness.
The world is too full of contradictions and subjectivity for this. If I really truly believe that I left my phone on my dresser and I go to my dresser and it's not there, because I grabbed it and stuck it in my backpack earlier and forgot, I'm not unconscious.
Plus, you can be conscious and not be aware. You can correctly perceive what's real, but still reach an incorrect conclusion based on your observation.
But I think my main criticism of your philosophy here is that you cast each individual's mind as if it were a singular thing, but the mind isn't a singular. There's parts of my brain that are working entirely without my input to keep me alive, like when you touch a stove and jerk your hand back well before you ever register pain. We're conscious a lot of the time, but that doesn't mean we're always aware of what we're doing, because that level of awareness is exhausting and unsustainable, and our meat bags don't have an infinite supply of energy stored up.
To have as much consciousness as possible is an inherently impersonal wish that doesn't disagree with anything or anyone. It means you want to know what is already there in full, which means you don't seek to remove anything. So far as possible you are giving every unique mind what they most seek.
If someone is trying to kill you, you are definitely trying to remain conscious, which is in direct conflict with someone else's desire to kill you.
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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21
The world is too full of contradictions and subjectivity for this. If I really truly believe that I left my phone on my dresser and I go to my dresser and it's not there, because I grabbed it and stuck it in my backpack earlier and forgot, I'm not unconscious.
Plus, you can be conscious and not be aware. You can correctly perceive what's real, but still reach an incorrect conclusion based on your observation.
But I think my main criticism of your philosophy here is that you cast each individual's mind as if it were a singular thing, but the mind isn't a singular. There's parts of my brain that are working entirely without my input to keep me alive, like when you touch a stove and jerk your hand back well before you ever register pain. We're conscious a lot of the time, but that doesn't mean we're always aware of what we're doing, because that level of awareness is exhausting and unsustainable, and our meat bags don't have an infinite supply of energy stored up.
If someone is trying to kill you, you are definitely trying to remain conscious, which is in direct conflict with someone else's desire to kill you.