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Materialistic negationism is the only coherent position, since there is only material. Everything else is just as religious as the religions that atheists bash
by yters 15y ago
Materialistic negationism is the only coherent position, since there is only material. Everything else is just as religious as the religions that atheists bash.
- pygy_ 15y agoWhat about your own subjectivity? How would you explain the difference between red and blue to a blind man, or what it feels like to fall in love to a robot without the appropriate subjective apparatus (or even to someone who never did (yes, it exists))? See http://clm.utexas.edu/~compjc/papers/Tononi2008a.pdf http://clm.utexas.edu/~compjc/papers/Tononi2008a.pdf and the next two links for what I bet my money on regarding scientific theories of consciousness. http://www.coma.ulg.ac.be/papers/vs/boly_PBR_coma_science_2009.pdf http://www.coma.ulg.ac.be/papers/vs/boly_PBR_coma_science_20... http://www.coma.ulg.ac.be/papers/vs/massimini_PBR_coma_science_2009.pdf http://www.coma.ulg.ac.be/papers/vs/massimini_PBR_coma_scien...