RE: On naturalism and consciousness
September 13, 2014 at 9:27 pm
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2014 at 9:28 pm by dissily mordentroge.)
Possibly part of the problem here is the long standing mistake of assuming mind and brain to be seperate processes and/or totally seperate entities.
A fear their identity might be reduced to a purely mechanistic (electronic?) function and the value of their conscious experience somehow degraded appears to fuel untenable positions held by many such as the desperate and almost universal wish for personal immortality.
I'm interested in why such an idea, over the centuries since we commenced thinking about such things, instilled fear in so many.
Like others here I await the findings of neuropsycholgy et al with little patience for the speculations of the Central State Materialists, Logical Behaviorists, Phenominalists, Materialists, non- reductive-Materialists etc and thier brave but essentially dead end speculations.
A fear their identity might be reduced to a purely mechanistic (electronic?) function and the value of their conscious experience somehow degraded appears to fuel untenable positions held by many such as the desperate and almost universal wish for personal immortality.
I'm interested in why such an idea, over the centuries since we commenced thinking about such things, instilled fear in so many.
Like others here I await the findings of neuropsycholgy et al with little patience for the speculations of the Central State Materialists, Logical Behaviorists, Phenominalists, Materialists, non- reductive-Materialists etc and thier brave but essentially dead end speculations.
The Human Race is insane.
