(January 26, 2016 at 2:03 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I don't think that the universe -does- know when information is happening. I'm not really sure what that has to do with a mind occurring. In any case, in a mechanistic explanation, the operations performed by the various portions of the brain -are- the things we are experiencing. You are experiencing, for example, the effect of alcohol on your brain...specifically the effect of ethanol molecules on receptors, when you are drunk.I am a singular agent. Neurons and brani parts are plural. Unless there is some part of the brain which has the capacity to accept as input different kinds of processed information, then how do you believe this information gets coordinated? Do you deny that a singular agent is experiencing sight and sound at the same time? If there isn't one, then who's experiencing the illusion that there is one?
Quote:The "essential being-ness"......? Maybe essential being-ness doesn't work? Perhaps it's just not there. No explanation at any level of interaction will -ever- overcome the objection that something underlies it. Pulling parts away from the brain is pulling away the space in which that experience arises. There's no "empty room" where sound used to be, there's simply no "where sound used to be".Well, I have changing perceptions, but despite those changes, I still have what seems like a consistent, and persistent, sense of self and consciousness. There's something at the core, which is why metaphors like a movie screen or a theater stage get mentioned.
