fred02

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   by fred02 13y ago

   Yes, seriously! Look into the work of the philospher David Chambers. His position is called non-reductive functionalism. Instead of saying "the brain causes consciousness", he would say "it is not ONLY the brain that causes c
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   by fred02 13y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
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   by fred02 13y ago

   I find the simple-minded dogmatism that the mind = brain hugely amusing. The fact is that right now science has absolutely no idea how consciousness works. There is no proof that reductionist materialism can explain how a mind arises from b