Re: Awareness as an emergent property of information flow


"Jim Bromer" <jbromer@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> There may be, and presumably are, unexplained scientific phenomena that
> will shed significant light on the nature of awareness. The
> implication that a computer is just as aware as a person because all of
> the actions of computer or person can be explained in the terms of
> physical properties does not follow. Physics is not a completed
> science. The simplification that awareness can be fully explained
> through a casual reference to materialism may work as a jumping off
> point, but not as a sound explanatory thesis.
> Jim Bromer

Hi
A good starting point may be to define awareness.
Science has failed to do this and so it makes sense to look elsewhere.
What we think of as self, may or may not be a function of the brain. What is
certain is that it's not part of the brain and as such cannot be quantified
by science. And so we have metaphysics thrust upon us in spite of the
insistence of science that it does not exist.
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