WokeBloke

What does it mean to be aware?

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In your view what does being aware refer to? 

Does it refer to this experience or your sense of being?  Or are you aware of those?

Is there really an awareness? 

Or is it a false claim to say "I am aware"?

 

 

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"There once was a boy who said though,
it seems that I know that I know.
But what I'd like to see, is the I who knows me,
when I know that I know that I know." - Alan Watts


"I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off people."

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'Awareness' is sort of an abstract concept. 

Are trees 'aware' of the Sun? If not, how do they know what direction to face their leaves? 

 


"I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off people."

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16 minutes ago, WokeBloke said:

Is there really an awareness? 

Or is it a false claim to say "I am aware"?

Doubting awareness would itself be evidence for awareness.  How can you doubt something you are not aware of?

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7 minutes ago, Mason Riggle said:

'Awareness' is sort of an abstract concept. 

Are trees 'aware' of the Sun? If not, how do they know what direction to face their leaves? 

 

Does the word/idea/concept refer to a real "thing"?

Computer refers to an observable object.

Awareness seems to refer to something invisible.

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3 minutes ago, Shambhu said:

Doubting awareness would itself be evidence for awareness.  How can you doubt something you are not aware of?

Are you aware of your awareness?

or are you are aware of stuff that is not awareness?

 

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@WokeBloke let's go back to my question about the trees.  Do you think trees are aware of the Sun? 


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Just now, Mason Riggle said:

@WokeBloke let's go back to my question about the trees.  Do you think trees are aware of the Sun? 

Trees are probably not experiencing anything.

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4 minutes ago, WokeBloke said:

Are you aware of your awareness?

or are you are aware of stuff that is not awareness?

 

Awareness is self evident.  Being aware proves it's existence.  It is not an object to be seen; it is the seer.  

To answer your questions more directly, I am aware of awareness, and what you call stuff I also call awareness.

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1 minute ago, Shambhu said:

Awareness is self evident.  Being aware proves it's existence.  It is not an object to be seen; it is the seer.  

To answer your questions more directly, I am aware of awareness, and what you call stuff I also call awareness.

So you don't make any distinction between the content of awareness and awareness?

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1 minute ago, WokeBloke said:

So you don't make any distinction between the content of awareness and awareness?

@WokeBloke How could there be any distinction?

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Just now, Tim R said:

@WokeBloke How could there be any distinction?

because the content of awareness is not aware of itself.

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Just now, WokeBloke said:

because the content of awareness is not aware of itself.

There is no "subject" "aware of" "object".

What you call "content of awareness" is just awareness.

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3 minutes ago, Tim R said:

There is no "subject" "aware of" "object".

What you call "content of awareness" is just awareness.

The seen can't see (no eyes) Do sights have eyes?

The heard can't hear (no ears) Do sounds have ears?

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A lot of threads on this forum get lost in word games and over-abstraction. Asking what [some word for an abstract concept] means is not very useful, imo. Why do you need to know what "aware" means? What relevance does it have to anything going on in your life?

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14 minutes ago, WokeBloke said:

So you don't make any distinction between the content of awareness and awareness?

I can make a distinction between an image in the mirror and the mirror itself, but that doesn't mean there are actually two things there.  If that were so, I could take the image and give you the mirror. 

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18 minutes ago, WokeBloke said:

The seen can't see (no eyes) Do sights have eyes?

The heard can't hear (no ears) Do sounds have ears?

"Content of awareness" is a doubling of words, basically. Just like your example, it would be like saying "seeing sight" or "hearing sounds". 

Consciousness (I like that word better than awareness for what we're talking about here, dunno why) simply is.  Without a subject, without an object. Consciousness, and nobody being conscious of anything. 

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1 hour ago, WokeBloke said:

Is there really an awareness? 

By the way you phrase it it sounds like you think awareness is something but it can be hard to convey such a subtle 'thing'. :)

It's more like a no-thing.

1 hour ago, WokeBloke said:

Or is it a false claim to say "I am aware"?

Yes it is a false claim because that which says that "I am aware" is a thought. Awareness doesn't speak.

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Aware of what?


 "Unburdened and Becoming" - Bon Iver

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