alt Hacker News> The best theory I have heard is that subjective experience is a field of some sort (the EM field, maybe?).
what would be producing the field for us to pick up? That explanation sounds no more scientific than astrology.
> The best theory I have heard is that subjective experience is a field of some sort (the EM field, maybe?).
what would be producing the field for us to pick up? That explanation sounds no more scientific than astrology.
Think about RF engineering: the same physical antenna can be used for both TX and RX. We already know that neurons both create EM fields and are influenced by EM fields. The role of EM fields in the brain is pretty well established, I don't think particularly similar to astrology.
I wouldn't claim that this theory is perfect (EM is not perfectly correlated with consciousness/experience), but there are aspects of this theory that are much more coherent than other theories.