Submitted by simsquatched t3_104kji6 in philosophy
Mustelafan t1_j390p0f wrote
Reply to comment by aesu in The Persistent Problem of Consciousness: an astronaut's epiphany by simsquatched
I'm not sure we're operating with the same definitions and/or understanding of physics here. By 'phenomenal conscious experience' I mean qualia. Qualia is a (by?)product of brains but not necessarily a property of physical matter, hence why I'm a dualist. I'm not sure how a molecule would change phenomenologically because I don't attribute such conscious phenomena to them in the first place. All of the afterlife stuff has nothing to do with observable (physical) reality, but is an addition to it; it's the statement that observable reality is not the total sum of reality.
>Or you can construct a logically, or even empirically consistent theory of reality which is consistent with both your assertion and these observables.
That's what I've done. This is what I've been trying to say; you can fully accept a scientific understanding of the physical world and also incorporate a belief in non-physical phenomena (through the direct observation of one's own arguably non-physical consciousness/qualia), and through some reasoning and epistemological coherentism deduce the existence of an afterlife.
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