Fujaro wrote:
1) Are there other conscious minds than the "I"?
There appear to be.
2) Can you perceive all aspects of your own conscious mind?
Can a fingertip touch itself?
The question has a wrong foundation.
3) Which aspects of your own conscious mind can you perceive with absolute certainty?
See above.
4) Do animals have conscious minds?
I am an animal, and I am conscious.
Whether other animals are conscious or not is a matter for empirical science to decide. Therefore it will be speculation.
5) What is your explanation for the existence of consistency in behaviour and interaction of 'things'?
Causation.
Take a fountain for example. It's shape is changing from moment to moment, and it is not exactly the same from one moment to the next, yet there is a consistency of form over time. The consistency of form is a result of its causes.
6) Why is there a difference between dreaming about a form and awake perception?
The more consistency we find in our experience the more likely we are to think we are awake. It is an arbitrary judgement.
Is a fundamentalist Christian awake or dreaming? I would say they are dreaming.
7) Can you be wrong about your view that consciousness neccessitates all of existence?
No, but our correctness is a result of the way we define those particular terms.
8) What other necessary conditions for existence beside consciousness do you allow?
The cause of consciousness. The category that contains all unknown causes.
9) Why do some of the things I consciously think about, not form itself, while others I don't consciously think about appear in front of me?
They are caused to.
10) Is unconscious thought possible?
No — not if we define "thought" to be a conscious activity.
11) Do opponents in debate have existence or are you arguing with yourself?
Opponents in debate appear to exist.
12) Why is there a difference in quality between dreaming and being awake?
There is a difference in the degree of consistency we experience.
However, many people are unable to distinguish when they are awake and when they are dreaming (eg, the religious, irrational people, etc).