---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote :
On 6/18/2014 1:47 PM, salyavin808 wrote: According to Harris , there is no evidence that consciousness exists in the physical world. I'm part of the physical world and it exists in me. > Let's put it this way - the existence of consciousness can't been demonstrated by physical ontology because consciousness is a spiritual ontology. Which is another way of saying you'd just rather not think about it. Or at least will refuse to be happy with the answer. > "I believe that this notion of emergence is incomprehensible—rather like a naive conception of the big bang. The idea that everything (matter, space-time, their antecedent causes, and the very laws that govern their emergence) simply sprang into being out of nothing seems worse than a paradox. " Sam Harris on the Mystery of Consciousness: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-mystery-of-consciousness http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-mystery-of-consciousness We are eagerly awaiting an alternative.
