Dusty of Sky

Regarding neurons, I agree that we should try to find the most plausible explanation for experience. Neuroscience seems to be a better candidate than ...

If I understand your use of the term 'emergent' correctly, you mean that the whole which emerges is somehow greater than the sum of the parts from whi...

I agree with all of that. But don't physicalists believe that everything is reducible to physical entities and nothing else exists?

I agree. For instance, if you smell roses, does that mean your neurons smell like roses? Obviously not. So how can you neurologically define the smell...

If I understand your cat analogy correctly, you are saying that just as you can represent a complex organism (your cat) with a simple name (Rico), you...

The questions you raise are so complex and multi-faceted that I'll have to be a bit overly simplistic. What brought us to this state is the triumph of...