Simple Materialism
From Aware Theory
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Simple Materialism is defined as the simple idea that you are your body. For everyone besides you this is true -- everyone see you as a body. We also have a tendency to see ourselves as a body as well. But what we really are to ourselves is a consciousness. I can imagine may self in any number of different bodies or not having a body at all, but I cannot imagine myself without being conscious. Being conscious is necessary for my conscious existence. The question is what makes me conscious? Is it a specific body? Under what conditions will this body keep producing my consciousness? It is possible that what is producing my consciousness is not this body that I experience. It maybe that the sensepath that I am experiencing does not show my real body.

Complex materialism bases consciousness and ixperiencitness on the complex functioning of matter not on a specific body. The structure and functioning of matter can be duplicated and or approximated. As a consequence so can consciousness and ixperiencitness.