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Posted by Noctillucent on June 20, 19101 at 17:12:37:
In Reply to: Re: Mind reducible to the brain? An argument against. posted by John Tchoe on June 17, 19101 at 21:27:49:
When viewed from the third-person point of view, the situation I described is NOT a contradiction. We merely see two distinct and identical looking bodies making very similar claims about being you. This is how you’re considering it.
However, consciousness itself NEVER exists from a third-person perspective. It exists exclusively from a first-person perspective. When seen from this viewpoint, the contradiction takes force.
Obviously you cannot experience both intense pain, and no pain, at the same time. This is a logically impossible state. Yet to locate your first-person experience in one brain and not the other begs the question as to who is experiencing the other. If not you, then who?
Since the other brain meets every physical qualification for producing your consciousness, if the experience produced is not ‘you’ in the first-person sense, then obviously there is something about your personal consciousness that cannot be reproduced and accounted for in terms of a physical brain.
It’s too bad the writers of the show didn’t think more clearly about the problem, as they could have produced a wickedly stunning philosophical argument for why the mind is more than brain stuff.
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