Good point Brent and one on which I am also equivocal, which is why I have been keen to tease out whether people are talking about consciousness or the contents of consciousness, and to try to work out whether there is, in fact, any difference. If there isn't, consciousness becomes something like *elan vital*, a supposed magic extra that isn't in fact necessary in explanatory terms - all that exists are "bundles of sensations" (or however Hume phrased it).
In reply to John's comment, we *don't* know that sure that certain types of brain activity cause consciousness, that's a (very reasonable) hypothesis based on the fact the two appear to be always correlated. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
