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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Well you can define a construct.
In science we often use terms that are open. So we first define what we mean before discussing the construct.
That way everyone is talking about the same thing. Otherwise it's just arguing semantics.
Okay. Consciousness is the awareness of the passage of time.
Perception of time is your definition of consciousness?
Do you instead mean memory of autobiographical events ?
Patient H.M lost his ability to form new memories of his experiences. (Starting after a brain surgery removed part of his memory centers as a kid).
People with dementia also loose their ability to form new memories. Though the complete loss of this ability is after the disease has progressed to severe levels.
People with Korsokoff disease. Sometimes called "locked in time" is also a disorder where new memory is disrupted so the individual often has no understanding that many years have passed. But they also suffer from a loss of time. Possibly because the amnesia is so extreme and complete.
This is why I say that time perception is part of memory.
People with Korsokoff are often distressed when they see their aged face in a mirror. Because to them, they have aged 20 years without experiencing the passage of 20 years.
Would you say these people are not conscious ?
You get why even defining consciousness is not particularly easy.
But we can't develop explanations without a specific defined phenomenon that can be measured or identified in some way.
Nope. Just awareness that time passes. Memory is irrelevant.