Consciousness "continuity", no such thing. The sooner you get over the deception the better you will be for it.
Susan Blackmore thinks like this, but she is skeptical of calling everything illusory.
Why is it deception?
Personally, I believe the philosopher zombie is as compellingly difficult to deal with as Fermi's Paradox.
The post by Eliezer Yudkowski in overcomingbias.com was mildly interesting, but wholly unconvincing and in no way a flawless refutation of zombies.
It was more of an ad hominem attack against believers, calling those who fall for zombie arguments a 'lay audience' among other things.
What of Chalmers, Chopra, Stapp, and countless others?
Are they lay?
But, her method of persuasion is unsurprising: most 'skeptics' resort to personal attacks, slander, libel, mockery, and the like. Similarly, they often call anything that opposes their viewpoint as a deception or a falsehood.
While the uplifting, exciting trailblazers enlighten us, the skeptics play dirty and constantly low-blow and attempt to discredit via personal attacks dissenters, and rarely do they directly refute propositions and theories.
They generally mud sling.
I think Michael Schermer is a reasonably intelligent guy, but he thinks he is like a super genius who sees beyond the greatest minds in history. He snickers at Einstein and Newton, guffaws at information fields and the quantum mind, but offers nothing in return-
totally devoid of all creativity, imagination and innovation is this poor soul.
In the end, he may be remembered as a bulldog journalist who made some progress in discrediting truly fraudulent mediums and psychics. That appears to be it. Nothing more to offer humanity or the universe.
No novel advances in science, no great works of art.
But, I am sure he has deluded himself into thinking he is a greater genius than Shakespeare.
This thread must be re-awakened!
Edited by paulthekind, 13 November 2008 - 04:48 PM.