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"Never" is a very strong word. "Subjective" experiences ultimately manifest as a series of electrical / chemical state changes in the brain; both the brain and
by neilc 18y ago
"Never" is a very strong word. "Subjective" experiences ultimately manifest as a series of electrical / chemical state changes in the brain; both the brain and those state changes are well within the realm of scientific understanding, so it seems quite plausible that science could explain subjective experience.
- amichail 18y agoThe point is you cannot distinguish between something that has subjective experience and something that appears to have subjective experience.
- banned_man 18y agoThe assumption of materialism is as superstitious and silly as most religious assertions. It's scientism, not science. Science treats physical matter as first-class citizens; mind is not one. A large subset of Buddhism (especially Tibetan) takes the opposite approach-- mind is the first-class citizen, and physical matter is "an appearance to the mind"; it exists only because we (and trillions of other beings) experience it, and it's no more or less real than the world in a dream. These approaches seem diametrically opposite and yet, interesting enough, it seems that Buddhism is (of the major religions) the one most quick to embrace science, because of the mutual recognition that these two approaches (matter first vs. mind first) are just that: merely approaches, none of which have a monopoly on the generation of useful knowledge.