What could be more oxymoronic than the assertion "I think consciousness is an illusion" ?

The core issue, as hads been indicated by several people on this thread, is that it appears irreconcilable to try and model a viewpoint in terms of mechanics; the I doesn't act like an It. The longest chain of compounded signals in the world has nomeaning and no communication to it until it leaps the gap to an understanding viewpoint. At that point, mirabile dictu! Communication, undersatanding, awareness, etc. all manifest.

Conversely the hugest pile of mechanical elements will lie idle and say nothing unless and until a spark of intent is injected into it, at which point, lo! it will send some sort of message.

To confuse these things to the point of believing that mud can produce intention and understanding leads directly to the sorriest mess of pottage imaginable.


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