RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis
February 15, 2017 at 12:53 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2017 at 12:54 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(February 14, 2017 at 2:37 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: I never understand the mystery about consciousness.
As far as I'm concerned it's just an evolutionary by-product, a side effect. We don't need to be conscious but we just are. I guess consciousness is the side effect that naturally happens when brains get complex enough.
And the whole "How can consciousness emerge from the physical?" thing is just a complete equivocation. Mental can be physical. It's not a contradiction.
You are engaging in the pathetic fallacy - attributing subjective internal thoughts, feelings and intentions to objective external phenomena. Mental properties are intrinsically teleological; whereas, all physical processes, including brain processes, are not. It takes a mind to give meaning to any and all the phenomena presented to it. Mind is logically prior to any assigned meaning given to physical objects and events, of which the brain is a part. Emergence theories are basically a kind of sympathetic magic, like manipulating a voodoo doll to make your enemy sick.
