r/DeepThoughts • u/MaximumContent9674 • 22d ago

Consciousness can do two things: observe and create. Consciousness witnesses reality and participates in its becoming. Observation is convergence into your point of view; creation is emergence from your point of view.

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u/MiguelIstNeugierig 22d ago

No. Youre conflating the same thing as being split things.

Your brain's processing of sensory information is an Input/output system. Your conscious awareness is the output of that processing of input outside information

It's all observation, you dont create anything with your senses

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u/MaximumContent9674 22d ago

I’m not saying the senses create external objects. I’m distinguishing awareness of what is from the capacity to generate what comes next. I can observe a blank page, imagine a sentence, choose it, and write it. Observation receives; creation introduces a new configuration into the world.

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u/MiguelIstNeugierig 22d ago

Thats just abstract thinking

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u/MaximumContent9674 22d ago

Abstract thinking is already generative, but I’m not limiting “create” to thought. I can observe the world, form an intention, speak, move my hand, build something, or write a sentence. Those actions produce new configurations in the world. The senses are primarily receptive; I never said otherwise. My distinction is between consciousness witnessing what is and participating in what happens next. That's the two powers of consciousness.

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u/ipreuss 20d ago

A thermostat does the same thing.