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Failure doesn't validate other forms of explanations. Materialism is an imperfect explanation but imperfection is not a metric for reliability. Evidence is the

Failure doesn't validate other forms of explanations. Materialism is an imperfect explanation but imperfection is not a metric for reliability. Evidence is the metric for reliability and so far as imperfect as materialism is... it has the best evidence. Moving to other explanations means moving to explanations with less or no evidence and therefore are at high risk of being false.

axguscbklp 5y ago
Materialism does not have an imperfect explanation of consciousness - it has zero explanation of consciousness. Materialism does have a non-zero explanation of things other than consciousness, but there is no good reason to assume that this should mean its success at explaining some other things means that it has any possibility of ever explaining consciousness.
- neonological 5y ago
  >Materialism does not have an imperfect explanation of consciousness - it has zero explanation of consciousness. First off zero explanation does not validate other explanations. Second off what you said is strictly false. Much of neurology research operates on physically manipulating the brain through material means including brain surgery, drugs and even removal of certain aspects of the brain. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain Subjects with Material damage to the brain where the connections between the two hemispheres of the brain are physically severed display behavior that is consistent with two consciousnesses existing in a single person. This is physical evidence that your consciousness is tied to physical and biological material. It further implies that because this consciousness is material based that consciousness can be recreated by simply simulating the material structure that creates it. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project The blue brain project is a research endeavor with the first step goal of emulating a full mouse brain and consciousness on super computers by using models of cellular neurons. This is real material based research on consciousness that is funded with a lot of money.

axguscbklp 5y ago

Materialism does not have an imperfect explanation of consciousness - it has zero explanation of consciousness. Materialism does have a non-zero explanation of things other than consciousness, but there is no good reason to assume that this should mean its success at explaining some other things means that it has any possibility of ever explaining consciousness.

neonological 5y ago
>Materialism does not have an imperfect explanation of consciousness - it has zero explanation of consciousness. First off zero explanation does not validate other explanations. Second off what you said is strictly false. Much of neurology research operates on physically manipulating the brain through material means including brain surgery, drugs and even removal of certain aspects of the brain. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain Subjects with Material damage to the brain where the connections between the two hemispheres of the brain are physically severed display behavior that is consistent with two consciousnesses existing in a single person. This is physical evidence that your consciousness is tied to physical and biological material. It further implies that because this consciousness is material based that consciousness can be recreated by simply simulating the material structure that creates it. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project The blue brain project is a research endeavor with the first step goal of emulating a full mouse brain and consciousness on super computers by using models of cellular neurons. This is real material based research on consciousness that is funded with a lot of money.