RE: On naturalism and consciousness
August 22, 2014 at 5:26 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2014 at 5:38 pm by Angrboda.)
Here's a thought experiment.
Let's say that on the desk in front of me is a small porcelain rocking horse, about 6" tall. In my mind's eye is an image of just such a rocking horse on just such a desk. However, there are multiple ways this image could have gotten into my mind.
- the image of the horse could have been relayed from my eyes;
- I could have simply imagined the horse with no prior experience of it;
- a genius neurosurgeon could have figured out the encoding of my memory and surgically implanted the memory of it;
- I could have hallucinated the image of it.