The hard problem has nothing to do with whether consciousness resides in the brain. Its about creating an objective measurement for subjective experie...
Its not that conscious experience can't be explained in terms of physical interactions, its the qualitative experience itself. Qualitative experience ...
They can say that, but if a loved one dies, we can ask them why they are crying over chemicals, and we'll see how much they really believe in this stu...
"The hard problem is that we cannot ourselves know what it is like for another being to experience that qualitative experience." I wasn't under the im...
If you take an airtight bag - or, rather, a hydrogentight bag - fill it with hydrogen and oxygen, and shake the hell out of it, will you maker water? ...
Isn't that like being a bit pregnant? Sorry - couldn't help it... :wink: 2 minutes ago Well... There have been many times when it has been a bit like ...
Perhaps the babbling you’re hearing is a result of your tone deafness to unfamiliar paths of thinking. Nope that wouldn't be it. I'm autistic, and a b...
"In order to go beyond a way of thinking, you first have to demonstrate a proper understanding of it." This seems to me a prima facie false statement....
I think consciousness is casual. But I'm hoping someone who agrees that it is, indeed, nothing but physics, but also thinks it is causal, can explain ...
Exactly, because Hume's method is to portray reason as infallible, then demonstrate the fallibility of our assumptions about causation, and induction ...
"What goes on in a computer doing a calculation is, no doubt, entirely governed by physics. But it is also governed by mathematics - that's why we cal...
If consciousness does not arise from the physical properties we know, and it does not arise from something like panprotopsychism (and I'm sure many he...
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