Consciousness
Consciousness
How is it that we, you and I, comprised of particles, these particles are held together by predictable, and understandable physical laws, can experience subjective consciousness? There is nothing in physics, no laws of time, space, mass, or energy that can logically engender consciousness. No matter how complex our brains might be, there is nothing in the electrical patterns of neuronal firing or in the chemical processes of synaptic discharge, which suggests consciousness. Yet conscious we are. How?
How is it that we, you and I, comprised of particles, these particles are held together by predictable, and understandable physical laws, can experience subjective consciousness? There is nothing in physics, no laws of time, space, mass, or energy that can logically engender consciousness. No matter how complex our brains might be, there is nothing in the electrical patterns of neuronal firing or in the chemical processes of synaptic discharge, which suggests consciousness. Yet conscious we are. How?
posted by Dr. W. Sumner Davis at 5:26 PM
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