alt Hacker NewsYet the mere fact that I am conscious is a greater truth than any of my perception of the "physical" world.
Neither does pure materialism rest on falsifiable beliefs, in that I could claim nothing exists outside my conscious experience.
Yet the mere fact that I am conscious is a greater truth than any of my perception of the "physical" world.
Neither does pure materialism rest on falsifiable beliefs, in that I could claim nothing exists outside my conscious experience.
Just as one can say the neocortex named itself, it's your brain declaring that it is conscious.
If ten years from now your phone tells you it is conscious, would you believe it? What criteria would you use to decide?