RE: Seeing red
January 21, 2016 at 5:32 am
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2016 at 5:33 am by bennyboy.)
(January 21, 2016 at 1:50 am)Emjay Wrote: Yes, that's correct. In my current world view, mental phenomena are both redundant and unnecessary... and only mirror/represent the underlying system activity but do not influence it ... so we may as well be philosophical zombies, and the puzzle is why we're not.
This is the essence of this thread, and the mind-body problem, for sure. Well put.
If you are going to have a side-effect, consciousness is a pretty amazing one to have. I mean, we're talking Pinocchio, here. Not only that, but it is a seemingly extra property that arises with no apparent loss of efficiency.
It is for this reason that I think IF the universe is material, matter must have a conscious component. Otherwise, it's as though a new dimension has supervened on a system just because it is processing information.
