A scientific world-view which does not profoundly come to terms with the problem of conscious minds can have no serious pretensions of completeness. Consciousness is part of our Universe, so any physical theory which makes no proper place for it falls fundamentally short of providing a genuine description of the world. There is yet no physical, biological, or computational theory that comes very close to explaining our consciousness and consequent intelligence; but that should not deter us from striving to search for one. Perhaps someday the fully appropriate collection of ideas will be brought about. If so, our philosophical outlook can hardly be other than profoundly altered.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:54:16 +0000
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