On 28 October 2013 07:33, John Mikes <jami...@gmail.com> wrote: > Allegedly Stathis wrote: > *If consciousness supervenes on neurochemistry then the brain will be > different if the conscious state is different. Demonstrating that there is > a change in consciousness without a change in the brain, or a change in the > brain not explained by the physics, would be evidence of supernatural > processes.* > > I would not call it 'supernatural', rather: beyond our presently > known/knowable. > Are you so sure that (your?) neurochemistry is "all we can have"? The > demonstration you refer to would only show that our view is partial and > whatever we call consciousness is something different from what's going on > indeed. Explained by physics? > I consider "physix" the ingenious explanation of the figments we perceive > - at the level of such explanatory thinking. It changed from time-period to > time-period and is likely to change further in the future. > Agnostically yours > John Mikes >
It would be supernatural not if it were inconsistent with known physics, but with any physics. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
