Re:A New Physics Theory of Life
by collyw on Monday December 15, 2014 @12:02PM
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I agree that science has been incredibly useful and reliable in predicting the physical world. That's the point. Consciousness is an unknown. We can't see it, touch it or measure it in any way. Does it have a mass or a shape or a size? Science hasn't done a very good job of explaining consciousness at all.
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Re:A New Physics Theory of Life
by cromwellian on Monday December 15, 2014 @01:13PM
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And so because we currently don't have any good definitions, data, or explanation, we should therefore assume it's not possible and stop scientific research into consciousness?
Re:A New Physics Theory of Life
by hackinthebochs on Monday December 15, 2014 @01:17PM
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Sure it has. Science has done quite a bit at explaining consciousness. It still has a long way to go but we are much further along than we were pre-science.
> We can't see it, touch it or measure it in any way.
Consciousness interacts with the world through its affect on material substances. And so there is a window by which we can study consciousness objectively.