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In the same way I accept that I can eat some leaves, but not rocks, that mercury is a liquid at room temperature while steel is a solid, and that the latter can
by c22 7y ago
In the same way I accept that I can eat some leaves, but not rocks, that mercury is a liquid at room temperature while steel is a solid, and that the latter can be configured into a car I can drive around in, I accept that some collections of atoms may posess the property of awareness without necessitating that all do.
- mooseburger 7y agoThe brain, like the objects you described, poses no mystery to physics. There isn't anything about the atoms in the brain that suggests there would be consciousness, or indeed, anything in physics that predicts consciousness arising, the way that the properties of any other macro object can be understood in terms of physics.