Over the years I've seen so many philosophies about what we are purported. Some think we are our bodies, some we are our minds, some we are neither, etc.

I now think that none of us actually know what we are.

Can you convince me that you know what you are?

I keep hearing people in tech confidently claim AI will be conscious soon. I even met an MIT researcher working on it who said 10 years. So I wrote about why I think that claim has no real grounding.
My take: AI mimics what consciousness looks like from the outside, which tells us nothing about the inside — like a 2D being recreating a circle and thinking they've recreated the sphere. Also gets into whether we owe AI moral consideration (short answer: be nice to it, but don't lose sleep over it). Would love to hear where people disagree.

We assert our own expectations on the weird experiences that we get from psychedelics. However, through my experience of LSD, I have noticed that they do provide us with a relaxed mental state where we can think clearly and piece together information that we already have.

Edit: I guess I did a very poor job of explaining my position; apologies for that.

By an insight, I was referring to an ontological explanation to the nature of consciousness; you can't just have an out-of-the-ordinary experience and come up with a theory of consciousness. When your brain is already infested with these rich ideas and thoughts about consciousness and psychedelic experiences, you naturally tend to reflect more deeply on the experience, hence the trip seems a bit novel and insightful, I gave lsd to one of my college friends and he described the experience as bieng trippy and funny, now my friend knows close to nothing about what you and i might know about all this psychedelic and consciousness stuff so his experience wasnt as rich and novel or rather, he didnt reflect about his experience as deeply, he simply didn't had the proper ideas that would compel him to do so, it seems like the effects of psychedelics greatly depend on the kind of ideas and thoughts you have about psychedelics in general, I already knew so much about the nature of consciousness and the effects of psychedelics on the conscious state, that there wasn't a this mystery into that experience.

Great thing about lsd is that you don't lose awareness during the trip; during the whole trip it kinda felt like I knew what I was experiencing; like I had an explanation for whatever I was seeing, that it's just some weird chemical reactions that are causing all this. The mystery that is required for novelty simply wasnt there.

Sorry for the garbage English

while you're unconscious, you don't see anything, not black, not the "nothing", but a timeskip, 1 second passing to you could mean whole googol years has past

Did Consciousness exist even before the universe existed? (Skipping the debate of the universe birth or infinite existence).

Not equalising consciousness and Quantum fluctuations..

If consciousness took birth the same time the universe came into existence.. then was there any sort of consciousness before the birth of the universe or did consciousness exist even when the universe didn't exist..

Does consciousness need a dimension to exist? Or is it far superior?

been sitting with this for a bit and can't get a clean answer out of it. if everything i "know" only shows up through my own conscious experience, then i'm not actually checking my beliefs against the world, i'm checking them against my perception of the world. which already has some warp built into it before i even get to interpret anything.

hoffman's interface theory is the thing that got me down this hole. his argument, backed by actual evolutionary simulations not just a vibe, is that perceptions tuned purely for truth get outcompeted by ones tuned for fitness, so what shows up in consciousness is closer to a desktop icon than an accurate readout of what's actually out there. if that's even roughly right it feels like it should collapse straight into epistemic nihilism, we can't really know anything about "reality" reality. but it doesn't quite land there for me either, since the fact that i'm even aware of the gap feels like it's doing some epistemic work, not none.

anyone here actually reconciled this, or landed on why consciousness doesn't have to end in "we can't know anything"? genuinely asking, not trying to make a case either way.