PHI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Null Hypothesis, Thought Experiment, Intrinsic Activity
12 Sep 2016
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The body belongs to the minimal realizing system for conscious experience. The body is an essential part of the physical supereminence basis of consciousness. Consciousness is embodied and embedded: minimum requirements for consciousness include a living body, not just neuronal events in the skull, consciousness is a life-regulation process of the body. The body is strictly inessential for conscious experience: your body affects what you experience only via its influence on your brain. If the relevant brain state were to come about somehow the experience would be instantiated (block). The body can be screened off" from the nccs of consciousness (thompson) Brain in a vat assumes that internal factors (the brain_) can be unplugged from one set of external factors (the body and the world) and can be replugged into another set of external factors (a vat). If the internal factors can"t be unplugged from the external ones, then they aren"t explanatorily separable; therefore, brain in a vat fails.
