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What makes you think that consciousness arises from matter? Is it a verifiable hypothesis?
by strogonoff 5y ago
What makes you think that consciousness arises from matter? Is it a verifiable hypothesis?
- teekert 5y agoUntil there is a better hypothesis I'm applying Occam's razor. Nothing "unmaterial" has ever been found in brains. There are 0 indications that consciousness needs more than matter (or I should say, more than our our laws of Physics can describe currently). Believing that something special is required, sort of stops the reasoning about this topic, as that something is very vague. Or do you have some hypotheses with some experiments you can suggest?
- strogonoff 5y agoNo, just curious. I think it’s useful to remember when a hypothesis is not verifiable or refutable. Raising that question does not necessarily invalidate the hypothesis, in my opinion. An alternative hypothesis doesn’t have to imply something special, but it could e.g. raise a possibility that matter is a map rather than the territory. But yes, so far also not refutable as far as I know.