week5

im sick this week so production is slow. these are questions that came from research, and tangents that have yet to be validated/expanded by research. on the right are animation experiments which are being developed into videos for the non-evaluative crit this week.

EXCUSE ME PLEASE I HAVE A QUESTION
- how consciousness exists in relation to other consciousnesses. Comparison to present this thought: if two people on the same day, within moments, but without crossing paths, behold the landscape of a mountain range, both will likely be overcome with affect and be immersed in the experience. The two individuals might have a nearly indistinguishable experience. However, the two individuals can also know for sure the similarities of their experience for they both have external evidence that the mountain range was no different when each one experienced it. Can the mountain range be substituted here with a psychological experience? What about when two individuals separately experience, for example, deep depression, lay still in bed, and are overcome with profound pain? I have imagined, while stuck in such a state, that I could be anyone. I am not thinking about the specifics of my life in this state. I am beholding a suffering that has presented itself to me. The difficulty is that both parties can visit the mountain range and say “Yes, this is the

mountain range I witnessed,” but both parties obviously cannot witness the

psychological phenomenon experienced by the other.

- Is the conscious mind an amalgamation of the parents consciousness? A fetus is created through nutrition and cells provided by the body of the mother. At some point in the womb the child must gain access to consciousness. Who provides the conscious energy, the personhood? I imagine that just as the cells are formed from the sperm and egg, creating a person whose physical appearance is half-mother-half-father, the conscious mind must also be half-mother-half-father. Thus, one has a mind that has been amalgamated and passed down, rather than a spontaneous awakening of a new individual.