• JillyB@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The fundamental forces are physical forces. Consciousness is not a force, as far as we know.

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      1 year ago

      Your comment doesn’t make any sense.

      The fundamental forces are physical forces.

      It is feasible for consciousness to be something like a force (more accurately, perhaps, a field) and as such it would be by definition a “physical” force. The use of the modifier “physical” on force doesn’t make much sense here: all forces are physical, as are all things that actually exist. It could be useful to consider the objects of consciousness as emergent, and the force of consciousness as fundamental; I don’t know enough about this line of thought to say much on that.

      Consciousness is not a force, as far as we know.

      That’s literally what the comment you’re replying to says. Emphasis on “as far as we know”. There’s no obvious way to dismiss it outright as not being a force, it’s just that as far as we know currently, it isn’t a force.

      I don’t personally have a well thought out stance on the matter.