cousin_it comments on There just has to be something more, you know? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 24 March 2010 07:48:37AM *  3 points [-]

If a "materialist" believes that the problem of consciousness can be solved by current physics plus vague "complexity" (rather than new physics), then I don't know if I'm a "materialist" or not, and this post doesn't convince me one way or the other. Am I alone in thinking this is all just hand-waving?

Comment author: Academian 24 March 2010 10:12:59AM 1 point [-]

This post wasn't about solving the problem of consciousness, but accepting that the physical sciences indeed studies pieces of it. Thanks for sharing your differing impression of it; enough feedback like this will no doubt result in a revision someday!