(February 17, 2013 at 4:42 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: No. It would be pointless to present anything until you recognize that naturalistic explanations of consciousness are not explanations at all, but rather insane delusions build on absurdities.
If that was true then all the medication in the world would not be able to help you treat depression.
(February 17, 2013 at 4:42 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Telephones communicate our thought through electrical and chemical processes, too. What is the difference between a telephone signal and a neural one?
The absence of required redundancy within the network to make it conscious and self-aware.
(February 17, 2013 at 4:42 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Books store information too. The means of its storage says nothing about the subjective experience of processing information.
That's because books lack the required mechanism to access their own information.
(February 17, 2013 at 4:42 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Yesterday I saw a traffic signal turn red and all the cars stopped. Did I see a thought happen?
You would have if you had been looking for it - i.e. scanning the brains of the drivers.
(February 17, 2013 at 4:42 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: You cannot prove or disprove that statement. Any fair-minded person can see that this is a faith-based assumption.
Actually, proving it is very simple. People who have their brains removed are not conscious.
