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   XPost: alt.philosophy, alt.astrology, alt.atheism   
   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: reanimater_2000@yahoo.com   
      
   Consciousness consists of inner, qualitative, subjective states and   
   processes. It has therefore a first-person ontology. Because it has a   
   first-person ontology, consciousness cannot be reduced to third-person   
   phenomena in the way that is typical of other natural phenomena such   
   at heat, liquidity, or solidity. (((Consciousness is, above all, a   
   biological phenomenon.))) Conscious processes are biological   
   processes. Consciousness processes are caused by lower-level neuronal   
   processes in the brain. Consciousness consists of higher-level   
   processes realised in the structure of the brain. There is, as far as   
   we know, no reason in principle why we could not build an artificial   
   brain that also causes and realises consciousness. --John Searle   
      
   Searle's own solution to the mind/body problem is biological   
   naturalism: consciousness, intentionality, and mental states in   
   general, are emergent biological states and processes that supervene   
   upon a suitably structured, functioning brain.   
      
   Brain processes cause mental processes which are not reducible to the   
   former.   
      
   Consciousness is just an ordinary, i.e., physical feature of the brain   
   and, as such, is merely an ordinary feature of the natural world.   
      
   http://human-brain.org/searle.html   
   http://afterall.net/papers/491114   
      
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