DasMurmeltier
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Hi everybody,
this is my first post at Skeptiko, let's start with my thoughts about the TV-analogy you, Alex, have suggested as the one alternative to a naturalistic framework.
I do appreciate you question notions like "the mind is what the brain does" because they are really not thought through well.
In the other hand, I am not happy with the TV analogy.
Usually it is not some "pure conscious event" that strikes us first, but the contents of consciousness. Intuitively, I'd say the magic thing is e.g. the consciously experienced pain itself and not an extra ingredient "consciousNESS".
I am pointing this out because it is really the brain that shapes the contents of our conscious experience. And this is different from what a TV set does. A TV set doesn't shape the contents of a TV show.
Maybe there is some truth to the analogy on a higher level of abstraction. But I suppose the main purpose of the analogy is to convince others and I fear that instead, it gives the impression that non-naturalists underestimate the role of the brain.
Does that make sense?
Im sure that i dont understand, but when you are saying that the brain shapes the contents of consciousness - what do you mean with that? That the content of consciousness is getting created by the brain? Im not really sure what you are talking about.