On 8 December 2013 07:26, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Roger Clough <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Materialistic theories of consciousness can only describe experience, >> not deal with experience itself. >> > > Consciousness theories are a dime a dozen and materialistic theories > explain consciousness every bit as well as non-materialist theories. And in > the vastly more difficult matter of coming up with intelligence theories > materialists are far better and keep getting better every year, while > non-materialist try to peddle the exact same useless religious crap they > have for millennium. So why do otherwise smart people believe in this > non-materialist claptrap? One reason and one reason only, their mommy and > daddy told them it was true when they were still pooping in their pants. > > Could you name a materialistic theory that explains consciousness (or a theorist who does so) ? I've not come across any who do much of a job (Dennett for example tries to explain that consciousness doesn't exist, which doesn't quite cut it for me).
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