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Originally Posted by David Equally, you cannot specify what configuration of matter is required to produce consciousness (and please don't say a human head!). |
But at least I haven't jumped to an ontological (non)solution. Why do you think it requires one?
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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.
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No, I haven't.
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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.
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I don't think you understand what they mean by "illusion."
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We need to start by recognising that there is a problem here, and that all possible solutions should be on the table.
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Oh, I agree. Now could you explain the solution offered by the ontological gambit here? Even just a glimpse of the solution?
~~ Paul