Posted by Bob on 9/26/2007, 5:30 am, in reply to "Re: Scientifically discovered God" That is precisely it. No one can define, in scientific terms, what it is, that is having the perception, or even what the perception "is." The gap between the numeric definition of a color, and the precise experience of that color, is irreconcilable. Consider a world where there are only robots. They walk around, talk, react, and behave outwardly in many ways just like we do. But on the inside, they are completely dead, having nothing resembling our experience of awareness, of life, of perception. As far as physics is concerned, we could be just like those robots, dead on the inside. There is no property of physics, no law of nature, that predicts that those robots will have the kinds of subjective experiences which pervade our lives. Physics cannot explain why we do. The subjective experience of experience, so to speak, is evidence of a deeper principle than that of inert particles and energy. Physics has no predictive value concerning consciousness, and no way of differentiating whether a system is having those experiences, or is merely mimicking them.
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