RE: Quantum consciousness...
August 15, 2017 at 10:51 am
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2017 at 10:52 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 15, 2017 at 9:31 am)bennyboy Wrote:b-mine(August 15, 2017 at 8:56 am)Mathilda Wrote: Can we ever prove that we are conscious? Can we prove that an animal is? This is why it is important to define it first, so we have some way of determining whether something is conscious or not.No, we can't. And, in fact, I'd say that consciousness is so essential to existence that our inability to objectively observe it doesn't bode well for objective observation as the best way to learn about the mind. I really think we have to define at least some of what "science" means to include methodical self-observation a la the roots of psychology.
I'm not sure why you think this is so. Do you also think that we cannot objectively observe electrical current with a voltimeter? That we cannot objectively observe temperature with a thermometer? Time with a stopwatch?
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