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The article presents no evidence to support this assertion. What aspect of the human brain transcends physical law? The author makes no attempt to say. The pr
by blacksqr 10y ago
The article presents no evidence to support this assertion. What aspect of the human brain transcends physical law? The author makes no attempt to say.
The problem with the so-called riddle of consciousness is that you can assert to me that you experience subjectivity, but you cannot demonstrate to me that you do. You cannot establish that any other person experiences subjectivity. Thus you cannot demonstrate even to yourself that you experience subjectivity because it is impossible to have a control, an externally verifiable example of subjective consciousness. If you cannot demonstrate to yourself that you are conscious, then there is no riddle of consciousness. And if you cannot establish a standard for discriminating consciousness, there is no way you can exclude the possibility that its visible expressions can be modeled in purely physical systems.
Arguments by assertion of the specialness of human consciousness keep appearing on HN like clockwork.