Re:Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain
by h1karu on Sunday July 06, 2014 @05:55AM
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exactamondo, but isn't science merely an epiphenomenon of consciousness ? If so isn't this a case of the snake trying to eat it's own tail ?
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Re:Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain
by RivieraKid on Sunday July 06, 2014 @06:12AM
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> If so isn't this a case of the snake trying to eat it's own tail ?
Pretty much. Consciousness is one level above science in a way, so every attempt to only use science to explain consciousness will fail. Consciousness is a metaphysical concept, "meta" = an abstraction layer above.