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Originally Posted by pacificwhim  First of all, Venom, you've created a straw man. No one is claiming anything about a supernatural explanation. |
Well, you haven't been listening to the skeptiko podcast, haven't you?
In the vido, Alex talks explicitely about "thelepathy". That's one thing. After that, if you listen to other Skeptiko podcast, you'll learn that Alex thinkgs that consciousness cannot be explain only by the brain activity. He is clearly dualist (he has stated that many time in the past on the podcast). And dualism means that consciousness exist "somewhere" outside of the brain (and that the brain activity only "correlates" to it).
Because nobody has never observed a consciousness outside the brain in a controlled and replicable experiment, almost every dualist thinks that consciousness exist somewhere "outside" our reality, in an unobservable realm. And that a supernatural claim.
So before saying that I'm using a strawman, please do your homework. By doing so, you'll know what you're talking about. For the moment, it's clearly not the case.