If this narrow supervenience thesis is true, then Swampman will have phenomenal consciousness when he comes into existence, assuming Davidson did at t.
In a recent book, the neuroscientist Christof Koch, now the chief scientific officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, recounts an irate audience member complaining about his proposal that primates other than humans might have consciousness: "You will never be able to convince me that a monkey is conscious!" she said.
But "if we figure out how the brain gives us consciousness, we will have learned how to replicate consciousness" — which means "the end of the mythic human world we've had since the Bronze Age.
By now, the reader with any sort of tabloid consciousness will have thought, "Hold on, this guy reminds me of someone".
It remains to be seen, however, what impact this impressive work will have on American class consciousness.
And we shall return, and we will know the place, because we will have sung our spiritual consciousness into being through this struggle for freedom.
Sure, we might all like to dream about complete makeovers, but unless you win the TV lottery and someone does it for you, any makeover you experience will have to come from your own consciousness, from your own choices, from your own actions.
As a result, an issue that was not even at the periphery of people's consciousness a year ago will have been transformed into a culture war that need never have happened.
This is due to the fact that many patients will have a reduced level of consciousness due to their illness or due to sedative medication used as part of their treatment.
Then one will have accepted the separability of phenomenal consciousness from intentionality.
