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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  All I'm assuming is that there will be some mechanism underlying consciousness, as opposed to entire human minds just existing out of nothing. |
Aren't there other possibilities? For example, simpler consciousnesses that come together to form what we know as the human mind.
As we have discussed, physics has retreated from giving a truly satisfying explanation of phenomena - perhaps at some level - maybe lower than the whole human mind - consciousness is not decomposable. I don't think it can be a 'mechanism underlying consciousness' because if there were, we would be back with the standard physicalist setup.
My point is that saying that consciousness may ultimately be irreducible doesn't mean there might not be a lot of interesting things to discover before we got there.
David