What if, just maybe, consciousness does exist and is a unique "field" which the brain generates excitations within?
Having a hitherto undiscovered "field" in physics should not surprise anybody at all, we're still discovering new ones.
As scientists shouldn't we at least ask the question. Are we so desperate to sound like authorities on every topic that we can't stop shouting "emergent phenomenon" and "illusion" for 2 seconds to humble ourselves before the layman and say just maybe the most simple observation every living human has ever made since the dawn of man isn't actually an "illusion" after all? An "illusion" which, by the way, nobody can actually explain how it arises in the first place or who the illusion is meant to fool?
Perhaps it's not an "illusion", but a unique property (field) in the universe of which the brain is merely an engine that creates excitations in?
Perhaps the actual vivid sensation of the color "blue" is merely a particular excitation within a "consciousness field" of some kind.
Can we at least agree that this is a _possibility_ that can't be ruled out? How could we be so arrogant to think we know something is not attributed to a unique universal property (or some kind of field) if we can't truly prove what else it's attributed to? Isn't that anti-scientific to say that?
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Having a hitherto undiscovered "field" in physics should not surprise anybody at all, we're still discovering new ones.
As scientists shouldn't we at least ask the question. Are we so desperate to sound like authorities on every topic that we can't stop shouting "emergent phenomenon" and "illusion" for 2 seconds to humble ourselves before the layman and say just maybe the most simple observation every living human has ever made since the dawn of man isn't actually an "illusion" after all? An "illusion" which, by the way, nobody can actually explain how it arises in the first place or who the illusion is meant to fool?
Perhaps it's not an "illusion", but a unique property (field) in the universe of which the brain is merely an engine that creates excitations in?
Perhaps the actual vivid sensation of the color "blue" is merely a particular excitation within a "consciousness field" of some kind.
Can we at least agree that this is a _possibility_ that can't be ruled out? How could we be so arrogant to think we know something is not attributed to a unique universal property (or some kind of field) if we can't truly prove what else it's attributed to? Isn't that anti-scientific to say that?
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