When Do Localised Minds Stop Being Conscious?

If we’re localised portions of consciousness, what about objects like a glass – is it localised or not? At what point does something stop being a localised mind and become the unlocalised portion? Rupert says: ‘When it stops having subjective experience. There is something it is like to be a dog. There’s nothing it is like to be a table. The whole debate about whether computers will one day be conscious is predicated on a misunderstanding. It’s not “I”, the body-mind, that am conscious. It is “I”, consciousness, that is conscious. And when you understand that, the whole debate about whether AI or computers will ever become conscious is rendered moot. Only consciousness is conscious, and there is nothing other than consciousness that could be conscious.’

From event 30 August - 06 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 30 August–6 September 2025

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