(March 28, 2014 at 1:19 pm)tor Wrote: Civilization is building space ships. Airplanes. Computers. Researching quantum physics. Soon we will have quantum computers etc.
Yet nobody knows shit about consciousness.
Ed Witten says consciousness will remain a mystery.
I watched the "Moving Naturalism Forward" event and apparently naturalists are having extremely hard time with it.
When will consciousness be figured out? Kind of funny that figuring out our own minds is the most difficult thing in the world.
A good read on what consciousness might be is The Mind's I: Fantasies and reflections on self and soul by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett.
It is a basic primer on emergence, among other things.
One of the next books on my list is Consciousness Explained by Dennett.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
