If you can't explain consciousness in terms of the existing fundamentals — space, time, mass, charge — then as a matter of logic, you need to expand the list | Right now you have a movie playing inside your head |
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We saw some of this kind of work from Nancy Kanwisher and the wonderful work she presented just a few minutes ago |
And he supposes that phi goes along with consciousness | These fundamental properties and laws aren't explained in terms of anything more basic |
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And since then, there's been a real explosion, a flowering of scientific work on consciousness | Psychologists studied behavior objectively, neuroscientists studied the brain objectively, and nobody even mentioned consciousness |
So there can never be a science of consciousness.
Why is there this inner subjective movie? He has a mathematical measure of information integration which he calls phi, measuring the amount of information integrated in a system | Even a photon has some degree of consciousness |
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Now, if you're a panpsychist and you take that view, you're going to go very hungry | And it has this constant voiceover narrative in your stream of conscious thinking |