Akita Suggagaki
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What I am getting at comes form the study of meditation. Egocentrism relates to our sense of self, rumination, memory, our Default Mode Network. In meditation of open awareness, that Default Mode Network gets disengaged and attention is more on information of the present moment. It is ego/self-less awareness.The problem is in distinguishing between simple tropisms (e.g. bacteria, or plants facing the light) and having conscious awareness, e.g. involving some kind of internal model of the environment. Otherwise, you could claim that a thermostat was conscious (which some philosophers, bless 'em, actually do...)
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