[MD] Science and the MOQ

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk>:

> Platt> To assume germs and electrons are not conscious offers nothing in the 
> way of
> > explanatory power either.
> 
> DM: Yes, which is not to say that having no brain or nervous
> system won't make a big difference, yet what remains
> without these is unknown. and of course how we
> try to approach these problems are always derived
> from analogies to our own experience. Our idea of
> causality and forceis hard to divorce from our experience
> of what a 'push' feels like. 

Yes. But it makes sense that consciousness is universal rather than it
emerged out of nowhere, like "oops," suddenly there it was. 

Platt

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