Consciousness has been one of my special interests for decades. Of course, the hard problem was part of my thinking until I decided that if consciousness is fundamental, there need not be a hard problem.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, "Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen." We know that energy is fast matter as well (e=mc2).…
Consciousness has been one of my special interests for decades. Of course, the hard problem was part of my thinking until I decided that if consciousness is fundamental, there need not be a hard problem.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, "Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen." We know that energy is fast matter as well (e=mc2). I do not believe in a dualistic but a monistic world, but I do not believe that consciousness emerges from matter.
If consciousness emerges from matter—if, for example, matter is complex enough—it is not fundamental. If consciousness is fundamental, it exists in all matter, and no hard problem exists.
I will be in Canada on May 4th and cannot participate. I will, of course, watch the recording.
Consciousness has been one of my special interests for decades. Of course, the hard problem was part of my thinking until I decided that if consciousness is fundamental, there need not be a hard problem.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, "Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen." We know that energy is fast matter as well (e=mc2). I do not believe in a dualistic but a monistic world, but I do not believe that consciousness emerges from matter.
If consciousness emerges from matter—if, for example, matter is complex enough—it is not fundamental. If consciousness is fundamental, it exists in all matter, and no hard problem exists.
I will be in Canada on May 4th and cannot participate. I will, of course, watch the recording.