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Originally Posted by Piers
Not sure I agree, I would rather say that all we have is the memory of experience.
As I understand stuff happening in real time is mainly subconscious. Our brain then fudges our memory to make it appear we were conscious of events at the moment.
Reality is merely present, reality doesn't know itself. Knowing is not required for experience to happen. Experience is present, it happens, and it isn't known. Then sometimes experience happens and part of experience is 'knowing'. This 'knowing' is ontologically not different than for example yellow, spicy, smooth, cold, pleasant, angry, etc.
You can't understand existence/reality by thinking about the subconscious and the brain... those are different contexts. Brain and subconsicous are merely ideas, if you want to understand reality then you have to approach it without ideas. There are proper contexts for talking about brains and the subconsicous, but fundamental ontology isn't one of those contexts.
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Originally Posted by Piers
Then it is not conscious.
The bit that is conscious is reviewing something that has already happened.
Yes, reality is not conscious, it is merely present. Awareness/consciousness are redundant concepts. We imagine a representation of who/what we are (so-called subjectivity), then we imagine an opposite (so-called objectivity), it is only from within the context of that dichotomy that consicousness makes sense, but this idea is not applicable to what reality is actually like.