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Then it is a null argument, because it doesn't address the problems I raise, but merely asserts the opposite. The question, in any event, is not whether or not there is something we call consciousness, regardless of philosophy, but whether or not our interior experience is adequately explained by materialism. Perhaps the best focus is free- will: materialism can yield determinism or randomness, but it cannot give us a self- determining substance that can make informed choices. Thus, one of our central experiences is either an illusion, or materialism is inadequate. Similarly, consciousness is comprehensive, not merely sentient and reactive. It summarizes in one act the experience of what is observed. It is not the actions of a diffuse mechanism, like the brain, but that which ultimately observes the results...... |
