^Tagelephant in the room

After repeated failures to explain consciousness, there’s a new path in the science of consciousness that promises to be the final theory of consciousness. How is consciousness explained? The still prevailing view among scientists and philosophers is atheistic materialism. That is, the explanation comes in purely material terms and does so without God. Materialists typically believe that science alone can do the trick. Science has had great success in explaining many functions of living organisms in purely material terms. So why not consciousness as well? But the easy extrapolation from neuronal wirings to living experience — consciousness — has failed to materialize (pun intended). The only things on offer from materialistic science are promissory notes. For example, neuroscientist Christof Koch Read More ›