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Simple Materialism

From Aware Theory


The "I" in "I am" is imaginary like it is in mathematics!


Simple Materialism is defined as the simple idea that you are your body. For everyone besides you this is true -- everyone see you as a body. We also have a tendency to see ourselves as a body as well. But what we really are to ourselves is a consciousness. I can imagine may self in any number of different bodies or not having a body at all, but I cannot imagine myself without being conscious. Being conscious is necessary for my conscious existence. The question is what makes me conscious? Is it a specific body? Under what conditions will this body keep producing my consciousness? It is possible that what is producing my consciousness is not this body that I experience. It maybe that the sensepath that I am experiencing does not show my real body.






When we base what we on the complexity of the structure and functioning of matter the "I" becomes the "we"



Complex materialism bases consciousness and ixperiencitness on the complex functioning of matter not on a specific body. The structure and functioning of matter can be duplicated and or approximated. As a consequence so can consciousness and ixperiencitness.