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Hemispherectomy?
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#11
RE: Hemispherectomy?
December 14, 2018 at 7:29 am
(December 14, 2018 at 4:20 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: Brain is simply a transceiver. Consciousness is external.

What happens when you can't get a transceiver repair man?
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RE: Hemispherectomy?
December 14, 2018 at 8:14 am
It's fairies all the way down.

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#13
RE: Hemispherectomy?
December 14, 2018 at 8:43 am
(December 14, 2018 at 7:29 am)wyzas Wrote:
(December 14, 2018 at 4:20 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: Brain is simply a transceiver. Consciousness is external.

What happens when you can't get a transceiver repair man?

I bet he also can't tell us how far away the consciousness is located, where it is located, what is processing the consciousness, what powers signals from the body to this process, and by what mechanism it is transmitted.
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RE: Hemispherectomy?
December 14, 2018 at 8:49 am
Physicalists can't answer these questions either
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RE: Hemispherectomy?
December 14, 2018 at 9:02 am
(December 14, 2018 at 8:49 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: Physicalists can't answer these questions either

Scientists can answer these questions because they know that consciousness is a product of the brain which does not act as a receiver.
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RE: Hemispherectomy?
December 14, 2018 at 9:09 am
(December 14, 2018 at 9:02 am)Mathilda Wrote:
(December 14, 2018 at 8:49 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: Physicalists can't answer these questions either

Scientists can answer these questions because they know that consciousness is a product of the brain which does not act as a receiver.

Consciousness was never observed in a scientific experiment.
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#17
RE: Hemispherectomy?
December 14, 2018 at 9:33 am
(December 14, 2018 at 9:09 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote:
(December 14, 2018 at 9:02 am)Mathilda Wrote: Scientists can answer these questions because they know that consciousness is a product of the brain which does not act as a receiver.

Consciousness was never observed in a scientific experiment.

How would you recognise whether a human was consciousness or not?
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#18
RE: Hemispherectomy?
December 14, 2018 at 10:05 am
(December 14, 2018 at 9:33 am)Mathilda Wrote:
(December 14, 2018 at 9:09 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: Consciousness was never observed in a scientific experiment.

How would you recognise whether a human was consciousness or not?

Direct detection of subjective experience.
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RE: Hemispherectomy?
December 14, 2018 at 10:14 am (This post was last modified: December 14, 2018 at 10:15 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(December 14, 2018 at 10:05 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote:
(December 14, 2018 at 9:33 am)Mathilda Wrote: How would you recognise whether a human was consciousness or not?

Direct detection of subjective experience.

How can it be subjective experience if you can detect it objectively?
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RE: Hemispherectomy?
December 14, 2018 at 10:34 am
(December 14, 2018 at 10:14 am)Mathilda Wrote:
(December 14, 2018 at 10:05 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: Direct detection of subjective experience.

How can it be subjective experience if you can detect it objectively?

If it is generated by brain then it should be detectable.
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