RE: Can Consciousness Best Be Explained by God's Existence?
March 31, 2014 at 12:44 am
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2014 at 12:45 am by Whateverist.)
(March 31, 2014 at 12:33 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: "Disembodied consciousness." Now there's a head scratcher--far more silly than the brain in the vat.
Chad will have to correct me if I get this wrong, but I think that is what he believes. I think the analogy is of a radio receiver. Our bodies by this way of thinking don't generate consciousness, they simply 'pick up the signal'. Consciousness is seen here as apart from the physical. The wonder of brains is that they allow us to access it .. or something like that.
If that were true -and I for one reject it- I'd still expect a natural account of how this is possible. It is fine and good to classify subjective phenomena as different in kind in that they are of the first person variety. It is always problematic to see the medium through which one sees, or understand the mechanism by which one understands. But I don't see how placing them in another dimension helps any.
