On 6/18/2014 9:55 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
There is no evidence in physical cosmology that would indicate
human consciousness as more than a theory.
You think the fact you can see and hear the world is only a
theory? It's the only thing I'm certain of.
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Your sense perceptions could be in error, but anything that only exists
in the mind is a theory, since there are no physical objects inside our
minds, we can only say that /we are conscious of something/, but we can
never know the thing /as it really is, /since consciousness changes the
very thing being perceived. Objects do not exist separate from their
being know, according to the /Consciousness Only/ theory. According to
Harris , there is no evidence that consciousness exists in the physical
world.
"I believe that this notion of emergence is incomprehensible—rather like
a naive conception of the big bang. The idea that /everything /(matter,
space-time, their antecedent causes, and the very laws that govern their
emergence) simply sprang into being out of /nothing/ seems worse than a
paradox. "
Sam Harris on the Mystery of Consciousness:
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-mystery-of-consciousness
