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The trouble is going from a mechanism to consciousness. Really not clear why consciousness is required for anything at all or how possibly in could emerge. Yet
by usgroup 4y ago
The trouble is going from a mechanism to consciousness. Really not clear why consciousness is required for anything at all or how possibly in could emerge. Yet — ala Descartes — surely the awareness of our own thought is the thing we can be most certain of. Everything else could be an illusion except for that.
- wizofaus 4y agoEven the awareness of our own thoughts, and certainly the sensation that we're somehow "in control of them" (vs being determined by the laws of physics) is almost certainly largely an illusion...