RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis
February 16, 2017 at 6:21 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2017 at 6:24 pm by bennyboy.)
(February 16, 2017 at 5:38 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Why don't we try something. Why don't -you- try to answer that question from within a material monist framework? Let's see if that helps..because I'm tired of answering it over and over only to be asked again. Same with the opener, I'm tired of giving you possible material monist distals. Can you think of any?
What you are asking me to do is difficult, since one of my reasons for not being a materialist is the hard problem of consciousness.
That being said, you already KNOW my view: I don't believe that subjective experience can supervene as a property of objects unless there's something intrinsic to the universe, at the core, which allows for it. Only a material panpsychism, if I may be permitted possibly to coin a term, makes sense; otherwise, you need some non-arbitrary critical mass at which there is no mind, but mind spontaneously erupts from the processing of a physical system.
In other words, mind like gravity or any other fundamental aspect of reality, is a brute fact.
