On Monday, May 27, 2019 at 7:59:46 AM UTC-5, telmo wrote: > > Consciousness is the stage within which all these phenomena are observed. > It is a qualitatively different thing, unlike any other thing I can think > of. > > It's like asking the difference between "Citizen Kane", "Star Wars", > "Clockwork Orange" and a cinema screen. > > Telmo. > > If you are a real materialist (Strawson's term), then consciousness is a property of (at least) the matter that fills up our skulls. Consciousness is 100% material. There is nothing like the brain in complexity around, but to say that the brain is in part immaterial is like theology.
What you are presenting of course is dualism, matter on one hand, immaterial consciousness on the other. It's just another form of antimaterialism. - - Immaterialism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaterialism>, a philosophy branching from George Berkeley of which his idealism is a type - - Dualism (philosophy of mind) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism_(philosophy_of_mind)>, a philosophy which includes the claim that mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical - - Gnosticism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism>, a general class of religious movements which hold that human beings have divine souls trapped in a material world - - Idealism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism>, which holds that the ultimate nature of reality is based on mind or ideas - - Maya (illusion) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(illusion)>, a concept in various Indian religions regarding the dualism of the Universe - - Platonic realism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_realism>, which holds that certain universals have a *real* existence, in the sense of philosophical realism - - Supernaturalism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernaturalism> - - Transcendentalism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism>, a group of ideas involving an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical realms @philipthrift -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b178e747-989a-48a1-af16-9a3439bb6ad0%40googlegroups.com.
