Yes, this. I think that our widespread confusion about consciousness is because we don't really have a good enough understanding of what we mean by consciousness to ask the question with sufficient clarity that it would admit of an empirical answer.
My ill-informed but strongly-held hunch is that consciousness is a contingent, transitory illusion of certain emphatically physical processes in the human brain. I could be wrong. In fact, I've read enough disturbing experiments related to consciousness that I'm certain I'm wrong about all sorts of things, but that doesn't stop me believing them firmly.
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andrewducker) wrote2010-07-23 03:43 pm
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My ill-informed but strongly-held hunch is that consciousness is a contingent, transitory illusion of certain emphatically physical processes in the human brain. I could be wrong. In fact, I've read enough disturbing experiments related to consciousness that I'm certain I'm wrong about all sorts of things, but that doesn't stop me believing them firmly.