RE: On naturalism and consciousness
September 9, 2014 at 6:39 am
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2014 at 6:47 am by Mudhammam.)
(September 9, 2014 at 12:35 am)bennyboy Wrote: Yes, you'll see that I'm a self-declared agnostic as well. But let me ask you this-- in a computational theory of mind, what is being "computed"? It seems to me you'd need metainformation-- i.e. information about your information, to arrive at an answer. But we don't have access to that.
To answer off the cuff and without going into great depth at the moment, I guess I would consider the external objects of the material world around me as providing all the content that my brain receives and "computes" into the images and concepts which make thought, but more essentially, survival possible. Does that even follow from your question? (It's still quite early in the morning over here).
Also, if by metainformation you mean something like Kant's twelve categories, well, then I'll just have to hold my tongue until I get around to reading Schopenhauer. :-) I've been told that he discarded all of those except one... causality.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza