g- I’m saying that the need to explain your thinking by means of brain processes assumes something about the situation that may not be true. I’m not saying that such a research project is doomed to failure, or violates the laws of physics, just that it is not the only explaination that would agree with what has been discovered in physics. I would further say that when the physicists overcame the idea that there must be a material,mechanical explaination for all the phenomena they were studying we got the most validated scientific theory in history. Sometimes when I see all the difficulties that occur in both neuroscience and philosophy around this issue I think that another approach might be more appropriate.
Otherwise I think the post by Eliezer makes some good points—which is why I tried applying it to the post itself.
g- I’m saying that the need to explain your thinking by means of brain processes assumes something about the situation that may not be true. I’m not saying that such a research project is doomed to failure, or violates the laws of physics, just that it is not the only explaination that would agree with what has been discovered in physics. I would further say that when the physicists overcame the idea that there must be a material,mechanical explaination for all the phenomena they were studying we got the most validated scientific theory in history. Sometimes when I see all the difficulties that occur in both neuroscience and philosophy around this issue I think that another approach might be more appropriate. Otherwise I think the post by Eliezer makes some good points—which is why I tried applying it to the post itself.