Mind
New theory of consciousness: Humans, worms, and the Internet are all conscious
Are we (and rats) powerless against our urge to stuff ourselves with Oreos?
Methodological naturalism guarantees that understanding consciousness will always be an impasse.
Is the design inference fatally flawed because our uniform, repeated experience shows that a designing mind is based on or requires a brain?
In recent days, this has been a hotly debated topic here at UD, raised by RDFish (aka AI Guy). His key contention is perhaps best summarised from his remarks at 422 in the first understand us thread: we do know that the human brain is a fantastically complex mechanism. We also know that in our uniform and repeated experience, neither humans nor anything else can design anything without a functioning brain. I have responded from 424 on, noting there for instance: But we do know that the human brain is a fantastically complex mechanism. We also know [–> presumably, have warranted, credibly true beliefs] that in our uniform [–> what have you, like Hume, locked out ideologically here] and repeated Read More ›