On: Single-celled organism has evolved a natural mechanical computer

[bencollier49]

Here's their argument:

1. Consciousness is the activity of the brain in response to stimulae, or things that people report that they can experience. These are the only things which need to be explained.

2. We can measure these and explain them with reductive science.

3. Therefore we can explain consciousness.

But of course this is a redefinition of consciousness because it ignores phenomenology. And that also needs to be explained.

[wizzwizz4 → bencollier49]

> But of course this is a redefinition of consciousness because it ignores phenomenology.

No, it isn't, and it doesn't.

1. Deliberate motor movements are caused by signals from the motor cortex.

2. Poets have written poems about phenomenological experience.

3. Therefore, phenomenological experience causes activity in the brain.

It's not a redefinition; just a challenge of your assumptions.