RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness
August 26, 2015 at 1:31 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2015 at 1:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You keep saying just, and that's "just" begging the question. Again, ever seen sentience persist -after- the flatline? Even, as Ive said, for purposes of discussion..granting the sentient energy, that still doesn't rule out the brains involvement. Those impulses and chemical signals might "just' be what the brain does...after all. That is our current understanding, btw, that the impulses and chemicals are the signal traces, the means of moving data along the lines. Even if the energy itself provides sentience, and not the manner in which it manipulates the various components.........that manipulation still occurs, and sentience is present when it does, but not when it doesn't...so far as we can tell. There's a dependence or relationship there -at the least. Remember, the campfire isn't sentient, the light from the bulb, nor the bulb (both, ultimately, made of energy) aren't sentient. So energy doesn't simply, by virtue of being energy, satisfy your 1, 2 and 3 (or possible 4). Nor does the brain, by virtue of being an organ..also ultimately made of energy, get itself ruled out by 1, 2...or 3.
At present your theory looks to be undemonstrable, unfalsifiable, and inconsistent.....not good signs. Lets make the third go away, and make the first two appear, or at least get closer to that ideal situation?
At present your theory looks to be undemonstrable, unfalsifiable, and inconsistent.....not good signs. Lets make the third go away, and make the first two appear, or at least get closer to that ideal situation?
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