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A comment on Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute. Parent comment

Re:Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute by rocqua on Thursday May 04, 2017 @07:51PM (#14269947)
While I completely agree, your arguments only work for materialist views. To dualists, it is anything but obvious that consciousness arises from physical processes in the brain.
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Re:Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute by castle-bravo on Thursday May 04, 2017 @08:07PM (#14270053)
Sure, but the dualist hypothesis doesn't explain any phenomena that can't be explained by the materialist hypothesis. There is no reason in principle why consciousness couldn't emerge from purely physical processes.
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