(August 10, 2015 at 10:11 am)Stimbo Wrote: I know I'm going to regret this but I can't let it go without comment:
(August 9, 2015 at 9:22 am)Little Rik Wrote: Energy and consciousness always go hand in hand like the pages in sheet of paper.
Rocks got energy within so there got to be consciousness in it.
You like to talk cars, so let's go with that. Internal combustion engines work by energy exchange, from chemical to mechanical via heat, with sound and light (within the piston chamber) and excess heat produced as waste. Your equation that energy always equals consciousness must mean that car engines are alive, in the sentient sense. Or take the braking system: mechanical energy applies frictional energy to the discs, generating heat and, in many cases, sound. Are brakes aware? Maybe that's why brakes squeal, because every time you touch that pedal it hurts them.
Or maybe we can drop the childish game of "consciousness is energy, therefore energy is consciousness, therefore everything containing energy must be conscious."
Sorry mate ehm sorry Stim.
I think it is clear that you are not following what i am saying.
A rock does have consciousness but as i said or as yoga say this consciousness is in a latent state or dormant state.
A car being made of matter is in a similar situation.
It just can not act on his own despite there is consciousness in it therefore it can not function without a driver.
Is true that everything even a rock has got consciousness but as far as this consciousness is in a latent state
it is obvious that it can not express itself.
We got evolution to give the possibility for a latent consciousness to become aware of his power.
You will be surprise mate when one auspicious day you will realize that you are God.