... perhaps it's time to consider the possibility that the hard problem of consciousness is not primarily to do with consciousness, but is to do with materialism. Perhaps consciousness is thought hard from this point of view because, in fact, energy, information or something quite like consciousness is the basic stuff of the cosmos? Matter might be the epiphenomenon, not mind. As Keith Ward entertainingly puts it in his new book, More Than Matter: "Minds are not illusory ghosts in real machines. On the contrary, machines are spectral, transitory phenomena appearing to an intelligible world of minds."
Perhaps this has some bearing.
Don't we have to be a little careful here -- as Bishop Berkely taught us, after listening to a similar theory ("Reality is all mind.") The sum total of his refutation being kicking a rock and declaring "I refute it thus."
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