RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Univer...
May 21, 2014 at 4:52 pm
(May 21, 2014 at 1:32 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Not quite...you don't know therefore you have nothing that supports your conviction that mind is an emergent property. In fact, you don't know because your materialist theories are incoherent promissory notes.
- effect of hallucinogens
- rapid loss of consciousness due to oxygen depravation
- effect of trauma
- effect of age
- electric stimulation forcing repetitive recall of qualia; the same qualia
- drastic difference in measured brain activity between fully conscioius and unconscious patients
This isn't definitive proof of course and the mechanism is still unknown, but it all points to the brain being the source of consciousness. You on the other hand have nothing but pure speculation. Your likely excuse for my list above is that the brain is some type of information exhange platform for your disembodied mind.You and your ilk will continue to cry that we are begging the question while ignoring that our position is methodological and subject to change based on new information; whereas, your position is dogmatic.
