RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis
February 16, 2017 at 10:37 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2017 at 10:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 16, 2017 at 9:54 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I can easily be proven wrong. Show what systems do/do not have subjective experience, and that there IS a critical mass of function at which something non-experiencing suddenly allows for experience. 1, 2, 3. . . GO!There's no need to prove you wrong.........that's really not how this works, and you know that.
Quote:The distal cause need not be infinite. If qualia are purely material, I'll be satisfied with you showing the exact physical structure which is minimally necessary for the most basic elements of subjective experience. An actual mechanism would be nice, but I'm not even gonna ask you for that.You've already been given a mechanism. You call it a proximal cause.
Quote:Nope. But I believe it's possible that there are subsystems, even in a rock, which do. I'd look first to QM particles, then to energetic interactions in the form of photon absorption or electric exchange.An interesting proposal.
Quote:Now, I don't know this to be the case, but you have some work to do. You do not believe that qualia or consciousness are intrinsic the the Universe or to the matter in it-- you believe that it is under particular circumstances that even the most primitive mind comes into being. So explain what this critical mass is, and provide evidence for it.I don't have -any- work to do with regards to your notions of qualia. Nor is there any sense in repeating myself.
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