For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, .... so that they are without excuse:
Romans 1:20
"If you watch a TED Talk by David Chalmers ..... Chalmers knows a lot about the “hard problem” of consciousness. That problem asks why physical matter would ever give rise to our sense of self-awareness, which is the very thing we know most intimately about reality.
He would prefer to discover fundamental principles that could explain consciousness with equations and laws. But the Hard Problem defies such formulations.
He says that physics can explain behaviors, but not consciousness itself. As tentative answers, he suggests two possibilities to the audience:
(1) the idea that consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe, like mass and gravity.
(2) The other possibility is panpsychism: the belief that everything in the universe is conscious at some level. The more complex the organism, the more its consciousness becomes capable of thought and communication. Each of these solutions, however, Chalmers admits has its own difficulties and ramifications.
Nowhere in his otherwise informative talk does Chalmers even look at the elephant in the room: that consciousness was created by a personal God. The avoidance of any consideration of a Creator could be dubbed the ABG response: “anything but God.”
Those who have read Thomas Nagel’s book God and Cosmos will recognize similarities to David Chalmers’ frustration: the desire to abide within scientific materialism, but the difficulty of accounting for consciousness and other non-physical realities. Nagel actually states that intelligent design arguments are compelling, but his ABG preferences prevent him from getting too close to it."
CEH
Romans 1:20
"If you watch a TED Talk by David Chalmers ..... Chalmers knows a lot about the “hard problem” of consciousness. That problem asks why physical matter would ever give rise to our sense of self-awareness, which is the very thing we know most intimately about reality.
He would prefer to discover fundamental principles that could explain consciousness with equations and laws. But the Hard Problem defies such formulations.
He says that physics can explain behaviors, but not consciousness itself. As tentative answers, he suggests two possibilities to the audience:
(1) the idea that consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe, like mass and gravity.
(2) The other possibility is panpsychism: the belief that everything in the universe is conscious at some level. The more complex the organism, the more its consciousness becomes capable of thought and communication. Each of these solutions, however, Chalmers admits has its own difficulties and ramifications.
Nowhere in his otherwise informative talk does Chalmers even look at the elephant in the room: that consciousness was created by a personal God. The avoidance of any consideration of a Creator could be dubbed the ABG response: “anything but God.”
Those who have read Thomas Nagel’s book God and Cosmos will recognize similarities to David Chalmers’ frustration: the desire to abide within scientific materialism, but the difficulty of accounting for consciousness and other non-physical realities. Nagel actually states that intelligent design arguments are compelling, but his ABG preferences prevent him from getting too close to it."
CEH