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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  For some reason, you have elevated the experiences going on in your head to a status that requires them to be ontologically different. I do not understand this. I find this particularly odd since you cannot enumerate exactly which of the things going on in your head are of this different nature.
~~ Paul |
Equally, you cannot specify what configuration of matter is required to produce consciousness (and please don't say a human head!). We are all blundering about in the dark (which is what makes the subject interesting), but one side - i.e. the physicalists - have persuaded themselves there is no real problem to solve. Some academics on 'your' side go much further that you, and make out that consciousness is just an illusion. You realise that that approach is wrong, but you still tend to drift in that direction.
We need to start by recognising that there is a problem here, and that all possible solutions should be on the table.
David