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    Evolution and Mind/Body Dualism

    It wasn't a direct response to you. But thanks for your ad hominem style response. Yes, you accept that the brain gives rise to the mind and consciousness, but as i understand your position you seem to fall in the panpsychism or property dualism camp. You are using the "hard problem"...
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    Evolution and Mind/Body Dualism

    Using the hard problem to argue that the brain doesn't cause consciousness is like someone saying that the planets do not revolve around the sun or that "god did it" on the basis of their ignorance of the mechanism by which they revolve around the sun, imo. And in fact some creationist have been...
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    Evolution and Mind/Body Dualism

    If this is a argument that the visual experience is more fundamental than physical reality then it’s a bad one because material interactions are the cause of that visual experience of that monitor. We can do lots of interesting things to the experience while altering, activating and damaging or...
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    Evolution and Mind/Body Dualism

    No, i'm sorry, but i can't. And the reason why i can't do it is due to the fact that we are decades away to even come close to an understanding of brain function on the level where we can start to explain how cognitive functions come out of the information processing activity of the brain as a...
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    Evolution and Mind/Body Dualism

    So, because we have incomplete knowledge of the nature of the mechanism behind a claim that necessarily means that the claim itself is not true? let's ignore all the converging evidence on the basis of which we can confidently conclude that A causes B, we don't perfectly understand A as a...
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    Evolution and Mind/Body Dualism

    Phenomenologically, let's define consciousness as the state of being awake and aware of one’s surroundings and oneself. As the definition implies, consciousness can be divided into two components – arousal or wakefulness and the qualitative state of awareness, which can have many...
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