RE: Mind/matter duality
May 29, 2013 at 9:22 am
(This post was last modified: May 29, 2013 at 9:22 am by little_monkey.)
(May 28, 2013 at 5:33 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Why is there subjective awareness, in a universe which is supposedly composed only of physical interactions? Why shouldn't even human beings be able to take in data, process it, and output a behavior, without ever actually experiencing this process?
You realize that all living things do that, including the most primitive forms such as viruses and bacteria - they all process data from their environment, in various degrees. Humans have the extra ability to do one more step: invent symbols ( alphabet & numbers) to describe the world. After over "100,000 years" of homo sapiens appearing on this planet (that number gets to be bigger over time), we've only began to understand atoms and cells in the last 100 years. So there's plenty of room to increase our understanding.
Joe
