[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Originally Posted by Open Mind

I addressed why Susan Blackmore's first argument is flawed, she simply ignores the brain is a filter of consciousness hypothesis.

And I responded to you by quoting Blackmore:

But note that by consciousness I am referring to the really interesting aspects of consciousness, that is subjectivity, or the "what it is like" to be something.

She is saying that psi experiments do not usually address the question of qualia. What does the brain filter hypothesis have to do with that?

Originally Posted by Open Mind

Nor can this argument be used against the brain is a filter of consciousness hypothesis. In such a theory the consciousness is not just generated in the brain.

So what? Blackmore said "... the more it seems capable of getting on without one [conscious self]." The brain appears to be capable of getting on without any source of conscious self, internal or external.

Blackmore is saying that she doesn't think psi is particularly useful in getting to an explanation of consciousness. You are saying that filtered consciousness may be useful for explaining psi. Those are two different things. But if you think that psi experiments are the royal road to evidence for filtered consciousness, by all means go for it.

~~ Paul