RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
February 19, 2020 at 12:31 pm
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2020 at 12:37 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(February 19, 2020 at 11:14 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: He can say that we can't observe consciousness, but not at the same time as he insists that we can observe the correlates of consciousness."
As already mentioned, the correlation is built on an assumption that others are conscious and that they can communicate it with us. The only fact that everyone is certain of is that they themselves are conscious, the rest is conjecture more or less. Without the assumption that others are conscious and that it can be communicated, we don't have much to go by.
When you say you see red, I simply believe you. Once I have, observing you stop at a red light becomes a behavioral correlate of consciousness; or I can strap you in an fMRI and whatever lights up when you see red becomes a neural correlate of consciousness.