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Consciousness appears to be a biological phenomenon, but so too are metabolism, reproduction and evolution. Are these also metaphysical concepts?

• edgyquant 20d ago
  Consciousness does not appear to be biological, that is an opinion and a highly debated one
  • mannykannot 20d ago
    Where does it appear outside of biology?
    • edgyquant 19d ago
      Where does consciousness appear in biology? It’s a philosophical/metaphysical concept so far as I can tell
      • mannykannot 19d ago
        The one thing that I think all philosophers agree on is that the only confirmed cases of consciousness discovered so far are biological. They are divided over whether there is anything fundamentally more metaphysical about it than other biological phenomena (with Dennett having been the best-known dissenter, though he has many successors), and the debate has been going on without resolution for centuries, if not millennia.