Abstract
Nicholas Humphrey and R.W. Sperry have tried to explain the subjective features of existence as an extension of the objective ones by treating consciousness as an emergent character, the product of evolution. This view is criticised on the grounds that it is particular sorts of consciousness that evolve and that consciousness itself is no more the result of evolution than mass is. The duality of subjective and objective lies in the ways of knowing about existence. Physics learns from observation. From observations of the way objects behave relative to one another, physicists have inferred that the conditions of existence include mass, extension, duration, energy and charge. Physics has no way of observing the subjective; the subjective is experienced and leads us to infer two further conditions of existence, consciousness and individuality. This review suggests that experiments can relate the observed to the experienced, but only when physics accepts as evidence experience and descriptions of experience.
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