Yet Another Proof That You are NOT Conscious (???)

Here is the link to yet another physicalist attempt to explain consciousness without understanding what it is trying to explain.

https://www.themandarin.com.au/128731-scientists-just-proved-these-two-brain-networks-are-key-to-consciousness/

 

To my frustration, the piece repeats the same omissions that are at the core of all physicalist analyses of consciousness that I have read so far.

 

As I mentioned in a previous post: 

In any attempt to achieve any possibility of a materialistic explanation of consciousness,

even in principle, one must take into account the singular property of consciousness, which is
that:  it is the only known observable phenomenon which observes itself. 
Without making that fact a prominent feature of the discussion, a necessary foundation of it,
one stumbles about in the darkness.

The article also repeats what I call "The Illusion Fallacy."

This fallacy involves a futile attempt to ascribe an illusion to itself,
that is to say, it claims that our consciousness is an illusion having an illusion.

This fallacy is so obviously absurd on the face of it, that for years I have tended to

skip over its mention, for that very reason.  No one, I thought, could take it seriously.

But they do.

Why do intelligent people commit this error so persistently?

The kindest answer I can think of is that, some people, actually are not conscious!

They are biological robots, zombies, computers, whatever words you wish, but they
do not posses INWARD consciousness, the kind that observes itself from within itself.

How else can one explain the kind of circular reasoning that describes an illusion as being

an illusion of an illusion?

It's like telling the little man who wasn't there, that he wasn't there.

Imagine some alien robots coming to earth from a galaxy far, far away, and without

encountering any people, the first thing they find is an automobile.
They study the automobile from front to back, top to bottom and left to right,
until they thoroughly understand all its workings, except for one part of the car.

The steering wheel.

The alien robots cannot imagine that the car was designed for use by a living,

conscious, purposeful creature.

The game of chess, likewise, has been analyzed for over a century by experts,

but there is one question that mystifies all analysts.  Why do people play it?

This is why I keep saying that, consciousness cannot be understood without

understanding life (not the biological description), and free will.

The three are a triunity in humans.

In my view, consciousness (and life, and free will) are not emanations of any physical process, but manifestations of a spiritual reality that overlays physical reality.

This is the core of the God paradigm.
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