# you are awareness? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 19, 2018, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565 "2018-09-19T04:24:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/21 "2018-09-19T16:40:10Z")
**Machinaforce**? Your thesis eludes me. I don’t know what you want to say or talk about. I do confess I didn’t bother trying to hard to understand the blobs of quoted text in the OP, but in my defense, it said “All words are false, including my own.” When somebody says that to me I’d be a fool to listen to them, wouldn’t you agree? It’s _false_. As for I are awareness and such, I dunno about _you_, but I am a body which includes a brain upon which my consciousness runs as a computer program. It’s not that complicated. I mean, it’s more complicated than, say, a toaster, but it’s not _that_ hard to understand. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/22 "2018-09-19T16:47:12Z")
Man I picked the wrong week to quit smoke’n weed. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/23 "2018-09-19T16:53:20Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I think I need a nap. I don’t know about you, but I want some cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/24 "2018-09-19T16:53:37Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I am Spartacus. > I am Legion. > I am legend. > I am the walrus. > I yam what I yam. Yeah, nice try, S.N. Faulkner. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/25 "2018-09-19T16:54:57Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Yeah? Well, I’m not your guy, buddy! Well, he’s not your buddy, guy! … Um, I mean, Machinaforce. No, wait, you’re Gatopescado? I’ve confused myself, now. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/26 "2018-09-19T17:28:19Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > Well, he’s not your buddy, guy! But it would be awesome if he were Buddy Guy. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/27 "2018-09-19T18:10:27Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Man I picked the wrong week to quit smoke’n weed. There’s always next week. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/28 "2018-09-19T18:33:02Z")
No, no, I think you’ll find, on some reflection, that you are mostly unaware. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/29 "2018-09-19T19:03:32Z")
Brainwanking is fun and all, but at the end of the day, no matter how certainly you can convince yourself that “solid” objects don’t exist except in your mind as perceptions, your awareness of shit will change dramatically when you ram the motorcycle you perceive yourself to be riding into one. So what, apart from a sticky mind, does the brainwank really get you? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/30 "2018-09-19T19:05:45Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I am Spartacus. > I am Legion. > I am legend. > I am the walrus. > I yam what I yam. > > We are Beatrice. I sweet potato what I sweet potato ---
**Author:** ![Machinaforce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@Machinaforce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machinaforce)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/31 "2018-09-19T19:28:23Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > **Machinaforce**? Your thesis eludes me. I don’t know what you want to say or talk about. > > I do confess I didn’t bother trying to hard to understand the blobs of quoted text in the OP, but in my defense, it said “All words are false, including my own.” When somebody says that to me I’d be a fool to listen to them, wouldn’t you agree? It’s _false_. > > As for I are awareness and such, I dunno about _you_, but I am a body which includes a brain upon which my consciousness runs as a computer program. It’s not that complicated. I mean, it’s more complicated than, say, a toaster, but it’s not _that_ hard to understand. The best I can tell (and this is being generous) is the finger pointing to the moon. Like how there is nothing catlike about a cat, it’s just what we agree to describe a cat as. But even still, no matter what you call something doesn’t change the interactions with anything else. That’s my best guess. ---
**Author:** ![Machinaforce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@Machinaforce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machinaforce)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/32 "2018-09-19T19:29:32Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > The OP still hasn’t read Dennett, I perceive. What does that have to do with anything. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/33 "2018-09-19T19:33:33Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > **Machinaforce**? Your thesis eludes me. I don’t know what you want to say or talk about… To know, you must stop knowing. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/34 "2018-09-19T19:33:48Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I sweet potato what I sweet potato Tuber, or not tuber, that is the question. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/35 "2018-09-19T19:33:57Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I sweet potato what I sweet potato Cogito ergo potato - I think therefore I yam ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/36 "2018-09-19T19:48:48Z")
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/37 "2018-09-19T19:49:07Z")
> [@Machinaforce](#): > > What does that have to do with anything. You’ll have to read him to find out. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/38 "2018-09-19T19:51:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo I disagree. It is rather the case that colorless green ideas sleep furiously. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/39 "2018-09-19T20:08:17Z")
> [@Machinaforce](#): > > The best I can tell (and this is being generous) is the finger pointing to the moon. Like how there is nothing catlike about a cat, it’s just what we agree to describe a cat as. But even still, no matter what you call something doesn’t change the interactions with anything else. That’s my best guess. So let me back up a step. _Please_ correct me if this sentence is wrong: The links/quotes you posted in the OP of this thread don’t make sense to you, and you posted them here in the hopes of getting us to explain them to you in a way that makes sense and/or transmogrifies them into something that is useful to you in your life. If the above sentence is accurate, then it must be a bit annoying how we’re all laughing about how they _don’t_ make sense and _aren’t_ useful in life. Also, if you want us to explain things to you (presuming you do), it would probably help to _mention_ that you’d like aid in interpreting the thing. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565/40 "2018-09-19T20:09:12Z")
If I parse the OP properly (and I’m not sure I do), it’s basically saying “Nothing exists but for my perception of it.” Sounds pretty damn narcissistic to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-awareness/821565.md?page=3)