(2020-11-09, 09:54 PM)Steve001 Wrote: No one has an answer to Sci's question. I've a better question. Why do some argue the human mind requires special consideration and circumstances for it to exist? To rephrase the question: Why should a not conscious physical universe exclude it from creating the mind in the natural course of its life?
I would say there is conceptual issues that are proving to be strong obstacles, like the hard problem of consciousness. There aren't really any ideas of how something like that will be overcome at the moment, unless you subscribe to something like IIT. Then there may be further obstacles, like physicalism's difficulty to explain parapsychology evidence, though I suppose you can leave that out because you dont believe it is valid.
I would ask back why shouldn't consciousness have some special consideration, since it's so remarkably different from any of the traditional things we've studied in the universe?