On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]>
wrote:

>> I have generally been inclined to agree with JKC that natural selection
>> can't act on consciousness, only on intelligence; so consciousness is
>> either a necessary byproduct of intelligence or it's a spandrel.
>>
>
> > If you assume materialism.
>

In science if you don't assume materialism then one theory works as well
(and as poorly) as any other theory. That's why all non-materialistic
theories of consciousness are such a colossal waste of time, they're so bad
they're not even wrong.

  John K Clark

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