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My thought would be, how can we avoid the combination problem altogether? Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the kings horses and all the kings men, Couldn’t put humpty together again. And so it is with trying to build up consciousness from parts. It is the problem with...

I'd really like to know more about this idea. I like the idea of consciousness being a field, as opposed to my thoughts on proto-consciousness. I guess this is a type off idealism? I think consciousness is more like an indivisible field, upon which matter exists. But it can’t be said to exist until...

I don’t think consciousness is built up from smaller parts. I think consciousness is more like an indivisible field, upon which matter exists. But it can’t be said to exist until the matter becomes a mind within that conscious field. Once a mind forms, out of matter which comprises an organism, a se...

Most people don’t begin as physicalists, and indeed even most physicalists don’t have the implicit ontological understanding of physicalism, because they haven’t attempted to grapple with the problem of consciousness from the materialists perspective. Or if they do, they tend to wave their hands of ...

I was thinking more asking the lines of: What are the characteristics of consciousness? The definition of Consciousness, famously, depends on who you ask. I'm wondering why we can agree on at least one or two characteristics. I believe I understand what you're saying. I don't object to the idea. I ...

The question “what is consciousness” has an implicitly stated assumption, that is, “how does matter give rise to consciousness?” So when you ask that question you necessarily add that assumption. Maybe we shouldn’t assume that the relationship between matter and consciousness is one of a one way cau...