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If matter can't be conscious, then what can? The choices seem to be: 1) consciousness can emerge from matter, and human beings are exhibit A for this. 2) hum
by SideburnsOfDoom 8y ago
If matter can't be conscious, then what can?
The choices seem to be:
1) consciousness can emerge from matter, and human beings are exhibit A for this.
2) human being are not conscious.
c) There's a "ghost in the machine", a soul, spirit or some other kind of supernatural ghost that's not reducable to matter as we know it.
- EliRivers 8y agoArrangements and patterns, perhaps. The matter isn't conscious. Consiciousness is in the arrangement of matter.
- SideburnsOfDoom 8y ago> Consiciousness is in the arrangement of matter. Right, that's what "emerge" means in option A. https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_your_definition_of_emergent_properties https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_your_definition_of... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence