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

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Comment author: bogus 24 March 2010 02:44:29PM *  0 points [-]

Most of us have only been issuing promissory notes based on a confidence that there is such an explanation,

That does clarify some things, but why are so many of you bothered by the claim that conscious experience may in fact be a basic physical phenomenon? It seems that many physicalists here are putting up semantic stopsigns to compensate for the fact that they don't really have an explanation yet.

Comment author: BenAlbahari 24 March 2010 05:22:32PM 0 points [-]

What do you mean when you suggest consciousness is a "basic physical phenomenon"? The handwave may lie in the question you give to the materialist, not the answer the materialist gives to your question.