RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis
February 15, 2017 at 10:42 pm
(February 15, 2017 at 10:08 pm)Khemikal Wrote: (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. ...........?
Fine. Pull out your Qualiometer 3000, and demonstrate that a brain, or ANY other physical system, has qualia.
Quote:Most of the universe very much appears to be this way already.
The question is why you don't believe ALL the universe is this way.
Quote:The difference in physical function would be qualia.....
Great! Show me some qualia, and we'll look at it under a microscope, and it's a done deal.
Quote: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.
That's because everything you just said begs the question.