(August 12, 2009 at 4:27 pm)Jon Paul Wrote: [...]there is absolutely no evidence that the brain depends on consciousness, or that the brain causally necessitates consciousness.
If I'm unconscious then my brain is not operating the same is it? If I'm in a coma I'm different.
Regardless of if consciousness makes a difference or not, we know that it is effected when the brain is. And there's no evidence to anything further. No evidence that it's a property of anything, just that it's effected when the brain is. So there's no reason to believe it's anything seperate to the physical workings of the brain. I have self-evidence of it, but not that it's a property of anything. However - as I said, we do know that it's effected when the brain is, and to simply say that 'everything could just be consciousness' - is purely semantical; because our experience is exactly the same whether we say this universe is 'all in the mind'...or not. Unless you have evidence to the contrary.
And I've already explained why there's no reason to believe in p-zeds, and it's related to the above.
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