Human Consciousness: Simply a state of matter? (Humans)

by dhw, Tuesday, May 17, 2016, 12:53 (3111 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: I found a philosopher who seems to agree. What she describes is conscious experience and decries the fact that we don't understand quantum reality:-http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/opinion/consciousness-isnt-a-mystery-its-matter.html?...-As far as I can make out, she is telling us we know what consciousness is (so it's not a mystery), but we don't know how it works. That, however, is not a mystery either because dualists are idiots, people who say we don't have it are also idiots, and the reason why we don't know how it works is that we don't know all about matter. So matter, not consciousness, is the mystery. In other words, eventually we shall learn how matter creates consciousness. So now you know. Or rather you don't know, but sometime we shall know, because she knows that “consciousness is matter”.