Mulling over this morning's lecture on consciousness, I had an uneasy
feeling about the group of authors who argue that (as I understood
it) all phenonema are conscious - its just that some are available
only at a very low, degraded level, so appear unconscious. This seems
to imply that if something appears to be unconscious, it is just that
you aren't looking hard enough for the conscious element.
Surely this violates Popper's notion of falsifiability: it is
impossible to disprove this argument - so therefore it fails to meet
the requirements of a scientific theory.
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