RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness
August 26, 2015 at 1:20 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2015 at 1:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
"Just a physical body" is also not handled in 1, 2, or 3 - course....I could say that the human is just the physical body as well....and so not sentient. I don't think that's the sort of objection you want to have to uphold. It also begs the question. Again, just to remind you, I don't require proof, so - begging the question isn't too much of an issue so long as it isn't proof you hope to offer.
I'm going to go even weirder and more absurd than earthworms, btw, just waiting to see what you pull the trigger on for 4, or if 1, 2 and 3 are good as they stand. Still though, more important to me than any of this..is how I am to determine the difference between sentient energy and non-sentient energy after simply accepting, for purposes of conversation, that "sentient energy" exists. You don't actually have to argue it in. We can just start there, that there's "sentient energy". How do we proceed -from there-? There must be "non-sentient" energy, because you aren't giving the campfires and lightbulbs sentience. How do I know when I've spotted "non-sentient" energy...if I knew that, I could determine what sentient energy was and where it was located or what possessed or facilitated it, without even knowing where to look. It would be incredibly useful criteria. It's the failure condition, for when energy is just, well...energy.
I'm going to go even weirder and more absurd than earthworms, btw, just waiting to see what you pull the trigger on for 4, or if 1, 2 and 3 are good as they stand. Still though, more important to me than any of this..is how I am to determine the difference between sentient energy and non-sentient energy after simply accepting, for purposes of conversation, that "sentient energy" exists. You don't actually have to argue it in. We can just start there, that there's "sentient energy". How do we proceed -from there-? There must be "non-sentient" energy, because you aren't giving the campfires and lightbulbs sentience. How do I know when I've spotted "non-sentient" energy...if I knew that, I could determine what sentient energy was and where it was located or what possessed or facilitated it, without even knowing where to look. It would be incredibly useful criteria. It's the failure condition, for when energy is just, well...energy.
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