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Consciousness Writing
Consciousness Writing
Consciousness Writing
development of modern science forces to think that its neither useful nor accurate
to feature ordinary
matter as that which has extension in sapce and can be determined .Electron ,for
example,a tiny part of
matter lacks determined position in space(as known from theory of uncertainity
principle).difficulties
with cartesian dualism provides motive to consider less radical form of sub. dualism
some
anything that produces/influence material effect must be a material state
if consciousness is a material state ,then it should be able to reproduce (as it is
assumed to be material state and being material state it should have specific
properties thus should be reproducible. But from Zombie thought experiment its
quite clear that such case of zombie could not be plausible in any sense as the ones
own experience cant be reproduced same in other body )
the causal argument:for this lets assume that some bodily behavior is caused by conscious causes ,eg. I
walk to the fridge to get the beer , bcoz I consciously fell thirsty