Consciousness as simply awareness (Alex O'Conner)

[Magical Realist]

Interesting thought here. But is there in fact awareness without being aware of anything?

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[C C]

Can you imagine a conscious agent that doesn't have any memory? Imagine what it would be like to have no memory whatsoever. ... In every instant, memory is never laid down. What would that be like? It's almost impossible to imagine. If you're falling through the air, and there's no such thing as memory, would you even know you were falling?

You couldn't interpret it as that or anything else because identification and understanding are dependent upon storage, retrieval, and application of information (including concepts). If fundamental consciousness is just manifestations sans a memory system, you wouldn't know the presentations were even there because there would be no idea available for vetting that as the case.

Given that even the language-based narratives in our heads are manifested as private sound experiences, cognition at the phenomenal level is just different modes of appearances reciprocally interacting with each other and serving as meanings and associations for each other. Like the image of a bunch of kids playing around a hoop and an internally audible thought arises, couples to that, and says it's "basketball".