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Yes, I've considered that; naturally, considering it's the fashion at the moment. There's no reason to assume that something which people have described for tho
by bencollier49 8y ago
Yes, I've considered that; naturally, considering it's the fashion at the moment. There's no reason to assume that something which people have described for thousands of years doesn't exist, just because a bunch of people working with a science rooted in objective measurement have found something that they're unable to model in any way.
It'd be nice to think that consciousness wasn't real, because then science could explain mostly everything. Very comforting. But it can't.
- naasking 8y agoDo you believe in Thor too because people believed in him for thousands of years? And consciousness does not have the long history you describe. And "unable to model" is a huge stretch. You can't measure something that has no definition or understood boundaries. When the rest if our perceptual and cognitive faculties are explained, you'll find there's nothing left for consciousness. It's the new god of the gaps argument.