RE: Why materialists are predominantly materialists
September 22, 2016 at 1:01 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2016 at 1:07 am by bennyboy.)
(September 22, 2016 at 12:54 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: How does that follow?If you cannot perform the same function on two things, they are not identical. At best, one is a property of the other.
A simple example: I can eat an apple. I cannot eat "red," even though redness is a property of the apple. It would be pretty deep to say, "the apple is its redness, and the redness is the apple."
So if consciousness arises from the function of a particular layering and bridging of brain functions, you can say that due to the way the parts of the brain interact, the property of conscious arises. You cannot then say that the layers and functions ARE consciousness-- because while there may be definitions of say a "unicorn" in the brain, you cannot find more than correlates for my daydream about unicorns. I think we will all agree that you will not find a unicorn in my head.
