David_Allen comments on The conscious tape - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Allen 20 September 2010 11:59:57PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for the clarification.

In my comments I have been working on the idea that consciousness is an abstraction. The context in which the consciousness abstraction exists, is where consciousness can be found.

So a mono-consciousness would still have a context that supports a consciousness abstraction. I don't see any problem with that. However the consciousness might be like a feral child, no table manners and very strange to us.

How about this. If a consciousness tells a joke in a forest where no other consciousness can hear it, is the joke still funny?