Comment on Cool Bug Fact #47
MBech@feddit.dk 2 weeks agoBecause non-conciousness with no brain activity is pretty simply “nothing”. Nothing is going on in you, so what you must be experiencing is nothing.
Comment on Cool Bug Fact #47
MBech@feddit.dk 2 weeks agoBecause non-conciousness with no brain activity is pretty simply “nothing”. Nothing is going on in you, so what you must be experiencing is nothing.
Ravenheart@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That makes sense in materialist metaphysics, but in recent decades materialism has become increasingly contested in philosophical circles. Philosophers like Bernardo Kastrup, Phillip Goff and David Chalmers being among the most prominent of its critics.
flandish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
as a relatively new philosophy nerd, please maybe show me some good reads by those folk? currently working through some Beaudrillard…
Ravenheart@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Absolutely! Bernardo Kastrup: Materialism is Boloney Phillip Goff: Galileo’s Error David Chalmers: Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness(This is his famous essay in which he coined the term “the hard problem of consciousness.”)
I find Bernardo Kastrup’s case for analytic idealism to be the most compelling.
flandish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
thanks!
MBech@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
I don’t respect people whose job title is “Sit in a room, and think about stuff”
trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Personally, I would respect them, but not if they go against basic science. You can’t just declare some sort of metaphysics and completely ignore actual physics.