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An emergent property of the physical, as distinct from the physical, just as the abstract is distinct from the real.Is consciousness physical or nonphysical?
So you would see both physicalism and non-physicalism as monist?I voted 'nonphysical'
Here is the great divide that is the true separating issue in so many of our debates.
Physicalists: Matter is primary and consciousness is a product of matter
Non-Physicalists: Consciousness is primary and matter is a product of consciousness.
An emergent property of the physical, as distinct from the physical
An emergent property of the physical, as distinct from the physical, just as the abstract is distinct from the real.
Is consciousness physical or nonphysical?
Here is the great divide that is the true separating issue in so many of our debates.
Physicalists: Matter is primary and consciousness is a product of matter
Non-Physicalists: Consciousness is primary and matter is a product of consciousness.
I'd broadly agree. Consciousness arising in dependence on the brain, but not the same, so non-physical.
I like the fact you characterized an emergent property here as a nonphysical one.
physical: Consciousness is a property of matter and the product of the Brain.
Non-physical functional process/property of the brain that is entirely a product of the brain the way that cellular metabolic-repair is non-physical as it describes an a process that is entirely produced by the dynamics of the cell yet also is producing those dynamics, and thus is really the non-physical process that emerges from and determines physical processes (I feel like sometimes RF gets set to repeat). Or alternatively, as the physical/non-physical dichotomy is questionable at best and almost a century outdated at worst, the answer is neither.
Consciousness doesn't appear to be possible without a physical framework to house it.
In a model of the brain, it can and should be represented by a mathematical entity capable of being fed input and producing output, otherwise known as a "function".How exactly is "awareness" a function?
Consciousness is clearly a process, not a substance. It makes no sense to speak of it as physical or non-physical. It occurs as events happening in physical substances. That is not to say it is in any way supernatural.
In a model of the brain, it can and should be represented by a mathematical entity capable of being fed input and producing output, otherwise known as a "function".
I wasn't. I was trying to avoid getting into concepts from systems biology and relational biology that are based upon Robert Rosen's work on what he called [M,R]-systems and closure to efficient causation. However:Are you characterizing consciousness as information processing?