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Things Are Still In Early Stages, But One Can Imagine That As We Build Up And Systematize Our Theories Of These Associations, And Try To Boil Them Down To Their Core, The Result Might Point Us Toward The Sort Of Fundamental Principles I Advocate.

Now I Have To Say I'm A Complete Atheist, I Have No Religious Views Myself And No Spiritual Views, Except Very Watered Down Humanistic Spiritual Views, And Consciousness Is Just A Fact Of Life, It's A Natural Fact Of Life.

Because The Idea Of Zombies Seems To Make Sense, And Seems To, In A Certain Sense, Be Possible, I Think One Can Use That To Argue Against The Thesis That Everything Is Purely Physical. Now Many People, I Think, Agree That The Idea Of Zombies Are Conceivable, Including People Who Want To Be Physicalists.

Sense Data Are Much More Controversial Than Qualia, Because They Are Associated With A Controversial Theory Of Perception - That One Perceives The World By Perceiving One's Sense-data, Or Something Like That.

Even When I Was Studying Mathematics, Physics, And Computer Science, It Always Seemed That The Problem Of Consciousness Was About The Most Interesting Problem Out There For Science To Come To Grips With.