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That's like arguing that no one has been able to prove that you can't make a universe out of extremely large volumes of soup. The phrase that applies here is "
by TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
That's like arguing that no one has been able to prove that you can't make a universe out of extremely large volumes of soup.
The phrase that applies here is "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
If you're going to claim that consciousness is fully explainable as plain wet chemistry, you're going to have to provide more evidence than a sentence that starts with "Well, obviously..."
- summm 5y ago"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Well, the claim that consciousness cannot be an emergent phenomenon strikes me as a much more extraordinary claim, and thus the burden of evidence is clearly on those. I suspect this warped perception is to religious and esoteric upbringing.
- scotty79 5y agoWell, everything we ever explained in biology and related fields turned out to be fully explained by plain wet chemistry, so claim that conciousness is not is quite extraordinary. Conciousness is a function of the brain like digestion is a function of the stomach. Why not explain digestion with spooky quantum mechanics?