bahman wrote:Materialism is a system of belief which claims that everything is constituted of matter and any motion of matter can be described by laws of nature. In close form, S'=L(S), where S is the initial state, S' is final state and L is laws of nature. There is however an anomaly in this system of view so called consciousness, C, which is simply the awareness of surrounding. C is simply the expectation of what S' should be. Materialist believe that C can be derived from S by the following equation C=P(S) where P is the act of experience. There is however no reason to believe that there exist a relation between C and S' in this framework. We however always observe a fantastic correlation between what we expect to happen, C, and what happens, S'. This means that we are dealing with a logically impossible situation since C could be anything.
Your thought?
Absolutely. But- I think that for the materialist - or anyone who attempts to understand the world as much as possible using the scientific method - C turns out not to exist anywhere "out there". I have C, but I don't know what it is, and I don't know if it is the only instantiation of it. If I think that other people's brains are just material objects, then there is no evidence of C "out there" and thus my science is better off without it.