(August 21, 2014 at 8:31 am)bladevalant546 Wrote: I do not know if this has been said out right. I believe personally consciences might have been a quantum event as much as a biological one. I too hold on to the problem of non-sentient cells somehow developing the "mind". For some reason "it just the way it is" bothers me, basically I find it on the lines of godddit, instead replacing the word god with nature with out any explanation. Do I believe in a natural origin yes, however I am not satisfied with our current perception.
Do you think that an individual water molecule is imbued with wetness? Will you also make the claim that wetness is somehow a quantum attribute?
I am comfortable with the idea of consciousness being an emergent property of the brain. For me it makes sense based on our observation of emergent properties in other systems and what little we do know about how the brain works. Nobody has an understanding of the mechanism, but it is more reasonable to me than invoking a dualist notion tugging along its never addressed locality issue.
