Just to make clear, this isn’t my view. I’m explaining the views of other people who think “consciousness” is an extra-physical phenomenon. I started by pointing out the necessary consequences of that position, but it’s not my own position. (I said this in other threads on the subject but not here, I see now.)
And yes, if people who postulate extra-physical consciousness, AFAICS they have to bite this bullet. If consciousness is at all extra-physical, then it is completely extra-physical, and is not the cause of any physical event.
On the other hand, if consciousness was the name of some ordinary, physical, pattern, then it wouldn’t help explain the subjective experience that forms the “Hard Problem of Consciousness.”
Just to make clear, this isn’t my view. I’m explaining the views of other people who think “consciousness” is an extra-physical phenomenon. I started by pointing out the necessary consequences of that position, but it’s not my own position. (I said this in other threads on the subject but not here, I see now.)
And yes, if people who postulate extra-physical consciousness, AFAICS they have to bite this bullet. If consciousness is at all extra-physical, then it is completely extra-physical, and is not the cause of any physical event.
On the other hand, if consciousness was the name of some ordinary, physical, pattern, then it wouldn’t help explain the subjective experience that forms the “Hard Problem of Consciousness.”