▲ | cogman10 10 months ago | |||||||||||||
What's to explain? The brain is a complex structure that does weird stuff. Consciousness is simply an emergent property of that complexity. | ||||||||||||||
▲ | nickelcitymario 10 months ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
While I'm not saying it's not an emergent property of complexity, is this a falsifiable claim? Is there any proof of this? Until we can replicate consciousness (heck, until we can even measure consciousness), this is as much a matter of faith as any other belief about how consciousness emerges. By all means, if the science has advanced on this, I'd be happy to be proven wrong. But I've yet to see anything come close to explaining the phenomenon in a testable and falsifiable way, placing this entire subject outside of the realm of rational science in the meantime. | ||||||||||||||
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▲ | vacuity 10 months ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||
It's blatantly untrue to conclude that when we are largely ignorant of the detailed workings of the brain and of the universe at large, and ultimately unscientific, using Popper's falsifiability principle. | ||||||||||||||
▲ | eboynyc32 10 months ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
I guess you figured it out. Go pick up your Nobel prize. |