> On 22 Oct 2019, at 13:06, Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 4:55:33 AM UTC-5, Cosmin Visan wrote: > I never understood this "if consciousness is all there is, then it is > allpowerful". How does that follow ? > > You posit consciousness is all there is. > > How do you account for it having a finite existence (bounded by birth to > death of an individual)? > > With matter, there is an explanation.
Only through an identity thesis (brain-mind) which requires actual infinities incompatible with Mechanism. With mechanism we explain consciousness (the feeling of appearances) and matter (why some of those feeling are first person plural and sharable, and why it stabilises, … or not, which we can test). That does not make the mechanist explanation true, but it becomes testable, and rather well test if we are willing to take seriously quantum mechanics without collapse (à-la Everett). Bruno > > @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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/0c62b308-15ed-472d-b867-b582f1e00e83%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/0c62b308-15ed-472d-b867-b582f1e00e83%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/7E340B39-E0DD-431C-B008-343D54AEC0C3%40ulb.ac.be.
