RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Univer...
May 15, 2014 at 7:52 am
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2014 at 8:12 am by Cato.)
(May 14, 2014 at 7:21 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Not it's not. There are myriad other possibilities, some of them physical monist.
You can say you strongly think the mind is only an emergent property of the brain. But if you want to define it as such, you're just cheating.
What myriad of possibilites? Nobody takes seriously ideas similar to the claim that consciousness comes from the pineal gland. If you believe the mind comes from the brain it must be an emergent property. If it weren't we would have found the source by now, like the pineal gland.
Understanding the definition of emergence and observing what we do know of the brain today is hardly cheating.