RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis
February 16, 2017 at 6:36 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2017 at 6:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 16, 2017 at 6:21 pm)bennyboy Wrote:It shouldn't be difficult, I'm not asking you to agree that anything -is- a distal cause of qualia, only asking you to identify candidates -as- a distal cause in a material monist framework. Your view is irrelevant to the question you asked me to answer.(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.
Laying aside brain itself as a proximal cause, as you asked me to do, does the process which led to that brain qualify as distal, how about the chemistry that supports that process, how about the physics beneath that? In the vast amount of explanatory space between the brain and quantum mechanics...all of it a material monist explanation..is there -anything- that strikes you as a candidate to be a distal cause?
If not...then just what are you asking for, exactly? In a material monist framework..the distal cause...or more accurately -causes- of qualia are less "mysterious" and more numerous than the proximate one.
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