(September 2, 2013 at 10:49 am)ChadWooters Wrote: A question for those of you who take the materialist position: is subjective experience causally relevant? If so, why? If not, then why must they exist?
Yes, it is causally relevant. The causal chain can be viewed at different levels - we can view it at particulate level exchanging energy all the way up to the level of planetary motion. The level at which human consciousness exists and intuitively perceives the reality - i.e. as singular entities rather than collection of particles - the existence of subjective experience within those entities becomes relevant.
