So, I was searching for a thread about this, on this forum, but surprisingly could not find one. Perhaps I missed it. (If I did you can point me to it.) Perhaps no one cares. Whatever.
Anyway, around June 14, 2014, our favorite intellectual imposter, Deepak Chopra, issued a $1M challenge of his own, to skeptics: Can YOU solve the Hard Problem of philosophy using the materialistic worldview as fundamental?!!!!
Here is the long, boring video of it:
My initial response was a tweet that stated: "Turns out that @DeepakChopra knows so little about consciousness, he has now asked @jref to solve the problem for him, with science!"
And, you can read my various other responses to both Chopra and his followers, from there.
Many of them were pushing the "Consciousness is fundamental, and matter is created from it" point of view, to which I want to KNOW MORE about it: How did consciousness arise, then? What can it tell us about mental disorders? What predictions about matter can we make from understanding consciousness as more fundamental?
But, no one was interested in answering any of those sorts of questions, for some weird and mysterious reasons.
Any other thoughts on this? It might be brought up at TAM, at some point, since this year's theme is all about the brain. (As if that was different from other years.)
Anyway, around June 14, 2014, our favorite intellectual imposter, Deepak Chopra, issued a $1M challenge of his own, to skeptics: Can YOU solve the Hard Problem of philosophy using the materialistic worldview as fundamental?!!!!
Here is the long, boring video of it:
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My initial response was a tweet that stated: "Turns out that @DeepakChopra knows so little about consciousness, he has now asked @jref to solve the problem for him, with science!"
And, you can read my various other responses to both Chopra and his followers, from there.
Many of them were pushing the "Consciousness is fundamental, and matter is created from it" point of view, to which I want to KNOW MORE about it: How did consciousness arise, then? What can it tell us about mental disorders? What predictions about matter can we make from understanding consciousness as more fundamental?
But, no one was interested in answering any of those sorts of questions, for some weird and mysterious reasons.
Any other thoughts on this? It might be brought up at TAM, at some point, since this year's theme is all about the brain. (As if that was different from other years.)
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