Most, if not all, of us don't remember being aware of anything before our first years of life, and certainly not before we were born. Our awareness, as we experience it, seems to come with our body. However, it is possible that there is simply a process that erases memory of previous form of awareness. For example, we don't remember our awareness when we were six months old, but yet seeing colors, etc. is already quite a lot of awareness. The same might be true for a possible awareness before we were born. Perhaps we forgot it because it was a different form of awareness.
Why is this considered by some a strange hypothesis whereas the materialistic hypothesis is not. Every modern thinker agrees that materialism doesn't work anymore. It has been replaced with physicalism, which is nothing else than a statement that everything can be reduced to the laws of physics. Sure, but laws of what? Laws need substance. If it is not matter, why not laws of awareness in some form? What else?
2007-10-12
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