How do you know you are conscious?

[WokeBloke]

Perhaps in reality there is no consciousness whatsoever.

[Seth]

Replace consciousness with direct experience.

[WokeBloke]

Just now, Seth said:

Replace consciousness with direct experience.

how do you know there is direct experience?

Perhaps in reality there is no direct experience whatsoever.

[Gidiot]

Call it whatever it is but something is apparently happening 

[thisintegrated]

I think, therefore I am

[BipolarGrowth]

What is is. This cannot be known or unknown. 
 

Consciousness is just a convoluted word which means nothing compared to what is. 

[WelcometoReality]

4 hours ago, WokeBloke said:

Perhaps in reality there is no consciousness whatsoever.

Consciousness is direct knowing. 

Is there something beyond this direct knowing that you call reality? Well no one can know that for sure but one can believe that there is.

[Kksd74628]

@WokeBloke

NOW you seem to be asking right questions ?. If there is no "perception" of something then it is not happening in present moment which means it does not exist. In case you have seen, there is no "perception" of time, perception, consciousness, I, gravity, control, etc. Direct "experience" cannot be denied though, because I guess you agree that the "sensations" are happening.

[axiom]

What are you? Nothing at all. There is no 'I'.

Within the nothing, there is awareness. Not awareness "of" anything in particular. Just awareness.

As soon as awareness kicks in, the 'I' and thus duality and the whole circus soon follows.

Awareness alone can be tasted but not maintained. 

Maintaining "awareness of" is a noble goal. 

[DecemberFlower]

There is experience happening thats for sure.And its happening within consciousness. If you will deny that that basically means you use your experience to say that there is no experience.. Kinda silly.. 

[Seth]

@WokeBloke That is delusion.

[Rokazulu]

On 4/13/2022 at 10:05 PM, WokeBloke said:

Perhaps in reality there is no consciousness whatsoever.

Consciousness is everything and everyone, everywhere, at all times. It stands up to all doubt.

Illusions are created in consciousness. Nothingness is created in consciousness. Void is created in consciousness. "No consciousness" is created in consciousness.
 

[Dogen]

Cogito Ergo Sum

[Michael Jackson]

On 14.4.2022 at 5:05 AM, WokeBloke said:

Perhaps in reality there is no consciousness whatsoever.

You are conscious. Therefore consciousness exists. There is no way around this.

[Blackhawk]

On 2022-04-14 at 5:05 AM, WokeBloke said:

Perhaps in reality there is no consciousness whatsoever.

 

On 2022-04-14 at 5:28 AM, WokeBloke said:

how do you know there is direct experience?

Perhaps in reality there is no direct experience whatsoever.

"Simply enough, you cannot suffer the illusion that you are conscious because illusions are possible only for conscious minds. This is so incandescently obvious that it is almost embarrassing to have to state it."
- David Bentley Hart

 

"I think we should feel very sober, and a little afraid, at the power of human credulity, the capacity of human minds to be gripped by theory, by faith. For this particular denial [of the existence of consciousness] is the strangest thing that has ever happened in the whole history of human thought, not just the whole history of philosophy."
- Galen Strawson