the trick to success in the philosophy of consciousness cottage industry is to spend so much time talking about the implications of your model that everybody forgets that your model isn't a model of consciousness and has no explanatory power for the phenomenon of consciousness
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either actions are caused, in which case we don't have free will, or they're uncaused, in which case we don't have free will
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it's an artifact of the concept of the soul, which even if it exists as an independent entity that informs our material bodies through making decisions independently of them, doesn't help a damn thing because *its* actions are either caused or uncaused
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The explanatory power of neuroimaging has been vastly exaggerated to put it lightly. And yes there may be many things where instinct happens quicker than conscious thought. But even then it cannot be extrapolated the the entirety of human consciousness.
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We have explored deep understanding of the workings of the universe itself, but the conscious has eluded any attempt to understand at a level beyond philosophical. What we have are models, not truths, and we never will have truths.
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