[ExI] Understanding is useless

Ben Zaiboc bbenzai at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 30 13:30:08 UTC 2010


Gordon Swobe <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

--- On Fri, 1/29/10, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

>> but I don't understand what kind of explanation would satisfy you?

> I don't understand your question. Explanation for what? I don't find it 
> especially troubling that neuroscience has yet to elucidate the 
> mechanism of consciousness, if that's what you mean.


Yet you feel quite happy to claim to know what can and can't be conscious?  Do you see the problem here?

Ben Zaiboc


      



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