If a “materialist” believes that the problem of consciousness can be solved by current physics plus vague “complexity” (rather than new physics), then I don’t know if I’m a “materialist” or not, and this post doesn’t convince me one way or the other. Am I alone in thinking this is all just hand-waving?
This post wasn’t about solving the problem of consciousness, but accepting that the physical sciences indeed studies pieces of it. Thanks for sharing your differing impression of it; enough feedback like this will no doubt result in a revision someday!
I do not believe the intent was to argue directly for materialism; rather, it was to throw some light on the psychological counterintuitiveness of same.
If a “materialist” believes that the problem of consciousness can be solved by current physics plus vague “complexity” (rather than new physics), then I don’t know if I’m a “materialist” or not, and this post doesn’t convince me one way or the other. Am I alone in thinking this is all just hand-waving?
This post wasn’t about solving the problem of consciousness, but accepting that the physical sciences indeed studies pieces of it. Thanks for sharing your differing impression of it; enough feedback like this will no doubt result in a revision someday!
I do not believe the intent was to argue directly for materialism; rather, it was to throw some light on the psychological counterintuitiveness of same.