(March 17, 2016 at 9:09 am)Rhythm Wrote:Here's the thing. In a purely parallel system, which the mind apparently is since you claim there's no unifying factor or mechanism, there's no defined input, processing and output. A neuron is a mini computer in itself, so if processing is mind, then a neuron would perhaps have a mind. In fact, I think you could argue that the energetic states of electrons as they interact with others is a kind of comp-- but you wouldn't want to say comp "mind." The thing is that the term "processing" is applied to a system of state from the outside. The reality is that processing is just another word for changes in state over time, and that is happening literally everywhere, all the time.
Is it not arbitrary exactly which systems you call comp minds, and which you just think are shit happening?