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Comment author: Richard_Loosemore 06 April 2012 06:11:43PM 0 points [-]

This is not correct. Science is not making any claims about subjective consciousness. It makes claims about other meanings of the term "consciousness", but about subjective phenomenology it is silent or incoherent. For example, the claim "Consciousness is made of atoms" is just silliness. What type of atoms? Boron? Carbon? Hydrogen? And in virtue of what feature of atoms, is red the way it is?

Comment author: hairyfigment 07 April 2012 04:19:29PM 1 point [-]

If you read this mini-sequence and say you can imagine a Zombie Mary in this kind of detail, then I declare your intuition broken. By which I mean, we'd have to drop the topic or ask if one type of intuition has more reason to work (given what science tells us).