RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Univer...
May 22, 2014 at 8:20 am
(May 22, 2014 at 1:41 am)bennyboy Wrote: Prove that you actually experience qualia, rather than just seeming to.
I don't understand the distinction in the context of this discussion. Seeming to is the only datum we have and you have yet to provide a demonstration of what you mean by actual. Until you do so seem to and actual are identical.
As an example, consider the proverbial rising of the sun. Before we collected and considered more input, it was right to conclude that the sun did rise everyday; it was consistent with observation.
The same can be said of the conclusion that the mind is an emergent property of the brain. We certainly don't yet understand how it works so speculating why is somewhat premature, but everything we observe points in this direction. Your dismissal of this path of inquiry as incredible in favor of the unsubstantiated assertion that consciousness is non-physical is no different than claiming God exists because we don't yet know precisely what caused the Big Bang.
