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Consciousness All the Way Down? (Robert Wright & Bernardo Kastrup)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness

There is nothing about physical parimeters which are purely quantitative, in terms of which we could deduce the qualities of experience. But that problem only arises if you think that the brain causes individual consciousness. You don't no longer have to explain how purely quantitative parimeters such as mass, charge, momentum, spin, frequency, amplitude, magically translate into co s and melodies and flavors. Because they don't. They're an appearance, not the cause. It's extremely intuitive. In fact, it's just that our culture, over the last two centuries or so, has manufactured artificial plausibility from materialism. This is probably the worst, least tenable onthological option on the table

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