(March 24, 2016 at 7:42 am)Harris Wrote:(March 23, 2016 at 6:21 am)Mathilda Wrote: Explain how this works then.
Is a conscience not a part of the brain? Does it float freely nearby? If so then how does it interact with the brain? How does information from the conscience get transmitted to the brain and what's stopping it from being overridden? What physical mechanisms are involved? How can a conscience exist without matter? Where does it get its energy from?
Please present the evidence for an inner voice that you call a conscience interacting with the brain that is free from human desires.
If the conscience is part of the brain then it is part of what makes human desire. Please point to exactly what part of the brain it is a part of and provide evidence.
As the saying goes, put up or shut up.
You are raising a mind-body problem which is a mystery of all times. Many philosophers, psychologists, neuro-scientists and even physicists had tried to resolve this problem through different mechanical means even by means of quantum realm but no one was ever able to describe subjective experiences and how mind and body correlate.
So basically you believe in something that you have no evidence for and no idea how it could exist in practice. You cannot even begin to explain these questions yet you continue to believe what you do regardless and instead hand-wave the questions away by saying that it is unknowable.
There is no mind-body problem. The mind is an emergent property of a collection of neurons. Destroy the neurons and the mind is also destroyed. We know this by observing people under anesthetic, or who suffer from neurodegenerative diseases or brain lesions. If we destroyed your brain, your consciousness, identity, memories and conscience would all cease to exist.
What people call a conscience is also an emergent property of the brain. Every brain is wired differently due to nature and nurture therefore everyone's conscience, if they have one, is specific to themselves.
