RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
February 22, 2020 at 2:41 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2020 at 2:43 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(February 22, 2020 at 1:47 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: In any case, Chalmers describes, and you must understand what he describes in the context of his position, what -would be- a correlate. Not that we have them, or can observe them. He doesn't think that we can any more than you do.
He clearly thinks we can observe them, either anatomically or more abstractly:
- "It seems, then, that there is a range of possibilities for the brain-based correlates of conscious states, ranging from special anatomical areas, through more abstract neural systems, to purely "cognitive'' correlates such as Baars's global workspace […] In any case it seems reasonable to expect that we will find informative brain-based correlates of consciousness at some level of abstraction in cognitive neurobiology" (Chalmers, 2000, p. 36)
- "It has also been argued that there is probably no neural correlate of consciousness, since there is probably no area of the brain that is specifically dedicated to consciousness as opposed to vision, memory, learning, and so on. One may well agree that there is no such area, but it does not follow that there is no neural correlate of consciousness as defined here. An NCC requires only that a system be correlated with consciousness, not that it be dedicated solely or mainly to consciousness" (p. 37).