Posted: Mar 06, 2010 11:34 am
pl0bs wrote:viralmeme wrote:Sorry to burst your bubble but consciousness is a property of the mind which is an emergent property of the brain. No brain - no consciousness. Unless you can provide any proof of the existence of a non-corporeal consciousness all you are doing here is engaging in intellectual etymological circle jerk.
pl0bs wrote:That little burden thingy is upon you.
Excuse me but you started the thread with "Proof: consciousness is not reducible to nonconscious things", so I have a prior claim as to proof of non-corporeal consciousness.
pl0bs wrote:You claim C is an emergent property of the brain.
Yes, unless you can provide any evidence as to the contrary.
pl0bs wrote:Prove it.
No brain - no consciousness
pl0bs wrote:Show me the experiment that demonstrates the creation of consciousness.
Consciousness is not created; rather it is a developmental process, an imprinting of the mothers consciousness onto the developing infant. We can see such processes in action in the growth and maturity of the average human being. From a newborn infant with as much consciousness necessary to feed itself and attract the attention of the mother. Such interactions promoting interaction with the environment and as the infant physically grows eventually leading to mobility and speech. Consciousness is not created so much as a developmental process, conjured into existence by the interaction between mother and child. One such instance being the pointing game that mothers play with their babies. Baby points, mother points and says 'car', baby looks at mothers mouth and attempts to imitate sound, and so on. Eventually intellectual faculties increase to such an extent that the said infant can engage in futile philosophizing on the Internet.