[extropy-chat] Qualia Bet.

[gts]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:22:50 -0500, Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:

>> If this is the definition of awareness then there is nothing especially
>> mysterious about human awareness.  No need for magic or dualism.
>
> But this is exactly dualism, because you are proposing an "awareness"
> that doesn't need to be there for the mechanism to work, and yet is.

Dualism implies something ghostly and non-physical.

-gts