On 5/2/2021 4:33 AM, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
On Monday, April 26, 2021 at 10:16:47 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 10:45 AM Terren Suydam
<[email protected]> wrote:
> It's impossible to refute solipsism
True, but it's equally impossible to refute the idea that
everything including rocks is conscious. And if both a theory and
its exact opposite can neither be proven nor disproven then
neither speculation is of any value in trying to figure out how
the world works.
If everything is conscious, then how do we know? We have no
unconscious objects to compare them with. The panpsychist argument
becomes an ouroboros that consumes itself into a vacuous condition of
either true or false. Nothing can be demonstrated from it, so it is a
scientifically worthless conjecture.
The best definition of consciousness is that it defines those annoying
episodes between sleep.
LC
“A person's waking life is a dream modulated by the senses”
--- Rodolfo Llinas, on consciousness
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