RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Univer...
May 16, 2014 at 8:40 am
(May 16, 2014 at 3:15 am)bennyboy Wrote:(May 15, 2014 at 10:15 pm)Chas Wrote: You call me dogmatic, WooWooters? Irony.Waving at the brain isn't showing a "mechanism." So far, science has done exactly zero in determining how material structures or interactions cause things to actually experience qualia, rather than just seeming to.
I require evidence of and a plausible mechanism for a claim. There is no plausible mechanism for dualism, nor evidence of it.
All of the evidence from neuroscience is for consciousness to be brain-based.
The evidence for dualism is that there is mind, and the objects which a mind perceives and thinks about. You can insist that the mind supervenes on the brain-- certainly, the content of ideas and thoughts seems to do so. But not only can we not show a mechanism for the supervenience of consciousness on the brain, we can't even show why it would be that a physical structure which can input and process information and produce a behavioral output would cause/need actual subjective awareness.
When Siri version 2050 arrives with actual subjective awareness, will the monism/dualism debate be over?