On 9/20/2012 7:14 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 20 Sep 2012, at 14:27, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Because we know for a fact that our consciousness correlates with neural
activity ...
We don't know that. It is a theory, a belief, an assumption, ...
Some people have believed that consciousness correlates to the state of the
liver.
We never know if a theory is "true". We can only know when a theory is false.
But "correlates with" isn't a theory - it's closer to a fact; the sort of thing we use to
find that a theory is false.
Brent
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