RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Univer...
May 16, 2014 at 8:57 am
(May 16, 2014 at 8:40 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(May 16, 2014 at 3:15 am)bennyboy Wrote: 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.
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?
It depends on what type of hardware Siri utilizes. I think if Siri can present psi phenomenon consistent with some of the most recent results like Dean Rad in has shown to exist, then yes, the debate will be over.
