OK, thought is most assuredly neural activity. But those are my thoughts, not some other persons. It is, after all my brain they are occurring in. Whatever one may think of Descartes, he was right about “Cogito Ergo Sum”. If we did not think then we would not really be, not in any meaningful sense. It is one thing to posit that each of us is yet another way for the Universe to know itself and collectively add to the reality. I could go along with that. But to say that “I am just one of the ways” doesn't work so well. We are all better than that.
@Chad – Qualia is something I am not even remotely acquainted with. Would you be so kind as to post a link so I could find something out about it. Thanks
@Chad – Qualia is something I am not even remotely acquainted with. Would you be so kind as to post a link so I could find something out about it. Thanks
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
