RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
January 23, 2019 at 11:28 am
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2019 at 11:29 am by bennyboy.)
(January 23, 2019 at 9:52 am)Gae Bolga Wrote:(January 23, 2019 at 3:43 am)bennyboy Wrote: If you are making a model of reality, and the leftover piece of the puzzle is the central feature of our existence, and also the means by which we investigate and formulate that model, then yes. Everything is needed.
Leftover piece of a puzzle? I asked you why you thought that consciousness would have to be necessary. Necessity is not at all how we understand evolution to operate, is why I ask.
Sure, it's a leftover piece. It is not accounted for in any physical description of the world, and is not required for any of the calculations. And yet, here it is.
I don't much feel like arguing the semantics of the term "necessary," but I can repeat what I already said about evolution.
1) If qualia adds something beyond material mechanism, then the Universe is not material monist
2) If qualia adds nothing beyond mechanism, then there's no reason for it to have evolved
If you want to contend that qualia are a coincidental supervenient property of the evolved brain, then I'd say that's quite the fantastic coinkydink.
