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Originally Posted by peacegirl
That's only because the mechanism hasn't been clearly established, but neither has the mechanism behind conscience. That doesn't mean we can't observe how it works.
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Actually we can't observe how conscience works, we can only observe actions and reactions to situations and infer what is happening in a persons mind. Since, as you have said, conscience is not a physical thing, does not have a specific location yet identified in the brain, there is nothing to observe, only the effects from which we drew inferences as to what is happening in the mind. The actions are the effects of conscience, which we observe, but we cannot observe how conscience itself works.