Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.
There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.
Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.
How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?
People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?
You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.
People hear your records in order, and they think of you as progressing in some direction, but it's not really like that.
I do believe that everything we see, everything that is in front of us is just the visible part of reality. We have the invisible part of reality, like emotions for example, like feelings. This is our perception of the world, but God is-as William Blake said-in a grain of sand and in a flower. This energy is everywhere.
My wife is really sentimental. One Valentine's Day I gave her a ring and to this day she has never forgotten those three little words that were engraved inside Made in Taiwan!