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Re:First, Let's Shoot All the Philosophers by omarchowdhury on Monday July 25, 2011 @08:29AM (#2802322)
Consciousness sure is a fundamental property of your universe.
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Re:First, Let's Shoot All the Philosophers by ristretto on Monday July 25, 2011 @09:11AM (#2802439)
The problem is some philosophers go so far as to suggest that consciousness is a fundamental property of the physical world that is only "detected" by brains, or that consciousness is in principle unexplainable. Imho, that's just rubbish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

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Re:First, Let's Shoot All the Philosophers by omarchowdhury on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @11:38AM (#2807814)
It definitely is rubbish if you are grounded in physicalism.
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