Martin Monti, “The Limits of Consciousness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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How Did You Develop Your Intuition?
Netter: How do you know if someone is conscious? I wish i had a thermometer i could put in somebody's ear and say, oh, they're conscious. But we don't. And the deep question is, sometimes you're called to decide if some one else is conscious. So for if you're judging your own conscioensness is very easy. You have access to this feeling that is what you learn to call consciousness. It's this kind of, i don't know, self reflection, or sense of agency, or all these things, sense of experiencing the world. What is really hard is for you to say, netter, i am conscious, right
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