If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will? If conscious experience were reduced somehow to mere matter in motion, what would happen to our appreciation of love and pain and dreams and joy? If conscious human beings were just animated material objects, how could anything we do to them be right or wrong?
Daniel Dennett...but I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.
Daniel DennettGo ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
Daniel Dennett