Originally posted by Regret
You are committing a dualist error in the attempt to separate consciousness from the physiological functioning of the brain.
I am not attemping to separate consciousness from the physical functioning of the brain. I have specified this before.
The problem is to find what is this physical mechanism from where consciousness emerges from.
Consciousness is not a physical phenomenon, we just have psychologic and philosophic approaches about its nature, so defining it physically is no easy task.
About free will, as long as you consider it to be a illusion I think there is no problem considering consciousness algorithmic.