(August 12, 2009 at 2:49 pm)Jon Paul Wrote: To conclude this, you must first prove the hidden (and unverifiable) premise: that brain activity causally necessitates consciousness in a brain whose proposed consciousness is outside of your empirical observational ability and conscious experience.
My consciousness gets effected when my brain does. If I get hit on the head hard enough I get knocked unconscious. There's no evidence of anything further so there's no reason to beleve consciousness is separate to the brain.
I have no self-evidence that I have the property of conscious, only that I'm conscious. There's no reason to believe in the property of conscious, that it's something in itself, there's no reason to believe that it's anything more than the workings of my brain - IOW there's no reason to believe it's anything extra, that it's an extra phenomenon seperate to htat. I already know that my consciousness gets effected when my brain does. There's no evidence to anything further.
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