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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  Could you explain exactly why it makes more sense?
~~ Paul |
Well because an all mental world could imagine a physical world if you want to put it like that - or think of the superficially physical world that we seem to inhabit in dreams.
The reverse process - creating a mental world by purely physical means - seems unlikely to be achieved. Since the dualist model of reality seems less extreme than a fully mental model, I tend to push that approach, but I realise that a totally mental reality - as suggested by some mystics - may be the ultimate explanation.
Qualia for paramecia only implies qualia for thermostats if you take the view that life is just complex chemistry. The fact that consciousness seems to go seamlessly right down to the most primitive life forms (I don't know about plants) rather suggests to me that the two are intimately connected.
David