Posted: Jul 15, 2018 5:22 pm
romansh wrote:zoon wrote: … For this to be possible, there would have to be something driving that choice which would be separate from the mechanisms in your brain, and that something would have to be highly organised, not just a source of randomness. There’s no evidence for any such organised driver of choice outside physical brain mechanisms, and strong emergence doesn't look like a candidate.
I can't help thinking the concept of "separateness" while useful, it allows us to understand how the universe ticks, it is ultimately false.
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I suspect that that was the point he was making!