thread: 2007-02-26 : Exorcism followthrough
On 2007-02-28, Matt Kimball wrote:
NinJ,
I think your view of mind as a wave is a good metaphor, but I also think it only explains the so-called "easy problems" of consciousness. I don't think it says anything about the "hard problem" which Chalmers identifies. (i.e. the man in my head watching the movie of my life—and possibly also directing if free will is more than illusory.)
You can argue that the man in my head is unverifiable, though, and you'd be right. A hard-line physicalist might say that only that which is verifiable should be considered. Maybe that is what you mean by the irrelevant part of 'impossible or irrelevant'? This was my position five or ten years ago. Now, I can only assert that I experience the man in my head and it seems worth noticing. Why is the man there, I ask? And I have no answers that aren't wild speculation. I still don't believe in a God who put the man there.
