RE: If beauty doesn't require God, why should morality? (Bite me Dr. Craig.)
July 30, 2014 at 3:39 pm
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2014 at 3:59 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Are you assuming that there's a factual difference between "truly sentient" and "philosophical zombie"? I think that the position being offered for your consideration, is that experience doesn't "have an exact biochemical correlate"I-mine
- but that it is that biochemical process. That there's no special sauce. Qualia doesn't have a relationship -to- biochemistry, qualia -is- biochemistry. Your question, from my POV, could be rephrased as "why is a universe which we conceive to be essentially a mechanical one (with a bit of trickery at the finest resolutions) supportive of mechanical processes". B-mine.
- but that it is that biochemical process. That there's no special sauce. Qualia doesn't have a relationship -to- biochemistry, qualia -is- biochemistry. Your question, from my POV, could be rephrased as "why is a universe which we conceive to be essentially a mechanical one (with a bit of trickery at the finest resolutions) supportive of mechanical processes". B-mine.
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