Multisense Realism

P1. Every subjective feeling and thought is actually a chemical change in the brain.

P2. Every objective observation of the world is actually a chemical change in the brain.

C1. The physical world that you can know about is only something that appears in your conscious experience.

C2. Brains are part of an observed world that C1 has determined to be an appearance in consciousness.

C3. Conclusion 2 replaces ‘brain’ with ‘appearance in consciousness’ in premises 1. and 2, yielding:

    C3a. P3. Every subjective feeling and thought is actually an appearance in consciousness.

    C3b. P4. Every objective observation of the world, including the activity of brains in skulls, is actually an appearance in consciousness.

C4. Premises P4+P5 reveal that subjectivity and objectivity themselves are also only aesthetic appearances in consciousness that have no physical basis or effect.

C5. The boundary between subjectivity and objectivity is a distinction that can only exist in consciousness, not in a brain or physical world.

C6. If a physical world exists, it is a phenomenon completely outside of our consciousness.

    C6a. Such a phenomenon need not have any appearance that we are familiar with.

    C6b. Such a phenomenon need not have any appearance at all.

    C6c. Such a phenomenon has no need for any consciousness to generate appearances.

    C6d. Any capacity to generate appearances would be unknowable to the physical world, since knowing and sensing are functions of consciousness.

    C6e. The capacity to generate or evolve consciousness can only come from consciousness.

P6. There is no use case for consciousness in an organism or brain that would not be equivalent to unconscious physical mechanisms.

    P6a. Any organic use that consciousness could have would only be a result of an assumed causal power from consciousness to make changes in the organism.

    P6b. Any higher dimensional control mechanism of behaviors in an organism would easily be accomplished by physically instantiating that hierarchy in additionally created cells of the organism.

P7. There is no current theory for how consciousness could physically evolve that does not negate itself with circular a priori assumptions of consciousness.

   P7a. Any retrospective theory of biologically evolved consciousness would be completely replaceable by a theory of biologically evolved unconscious regulation mechanisms.

   P7b. Any prospective theory of biological evolution leading to consciousness must explain how and why unconscious mechanisms such as force and charge were not used instead.

   P7c. Any prospective theory of physical mechanisms that could generate conscious appearances of any kind must not rely on conscious appearances, including knowable appearances of physical worlds and brains.

C7. There can be no physical explanation for appearances of consciousness or within consciousness or within a physical universe that does not undermine itself with circular reasoning.