RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis
February 16, 2017 at 11:18 am
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2017 at 11:19 am by bennyboy.)
(February 16, 2017 at 10:57 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: I still don't see the mystery. Science can't prove it's caused by just a bunch of neurons but the likelihood that it is is very close to 100 percent because anything else is ridiculous.It's a mystery because we don't know how it works or why it's there.
Quote:Neurons in my brain working together the way they do produce the side effect of my subjective experience... science can't prove I have that experience because that's the nature of subjective experience. I don't see the big deal.You are talking about the proximate cause. If we assume a bunch of organic molecules don't themselves experience qualia, and we know that a human with a brain does, it's fine to wave toward the brain and say, "It's in there somewhere." But that's not really the philosophical question that matters. What matters is the distal cause: why it is that objects may become subjectively aware at all. What is it about the universe that allows me, or anyone else, to know what it's like to see the color red, or to enjoy a nice cup of hot chocolate?
