(February 15, 2017 at 9:32 pm)bennyboy Wrote: If the universe is nothing but materials, their processes, and their physical transformations, then where does subjective agency fit into all this?Apparently, it fits into brains. ...........?
Quote:It is irrelevant to the mechanism. Imagine this-- let's say there were a universe identical to this one, with one exception-- no qualia experienced by anything.Most of the universe very much appears to be this way already.
Quote:Then look at this universe, identical but with qualia. What's the difference in physical function? Zero.The difference in physical function would be qualia.....
Quote:So to insist that the universe is nothing but physical function is to introduce a ghost into the equation.I'm not sure why you would think so, it doesn't follow from anything above.
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