(December 14, 2018 at 11:32 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote:(December 14, 2018 at 10:59 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: I will give some of the main lines of evidence for consciousness being a product of the brain below.
Behavior, brain activity and reports from patients are not evidence of subjective experience.
I didn't say that brain activity was evidence of subjective experience. Behavior and reports from patients are, however, as we have good reason based upon our own firsthand experience that behavior and self reports are strongly associated with consciousness. Since we have reason to associate them with consciousness based upon subjective experience, they are evidence which relates those things to the brain and the body and are evidence that consciousness is an effect of the brain and body. You don't get around the problem that easily. And you still haven't provided any evidence for your belief that the brain is merely a transceiver. I'm open to the hypothesis, but I think any unbiased assessment of the relative evidence for the two theories falls clearly on the side of brain as producer of consciousness.
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