RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness
August 26, 2015 at 3:25 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2015 at 3:39 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Unfortunately, I've neither offered an argument, nor rested my non-argument on any such assumption. I don't know whether or not the energy flowing through the light bulb is sentient, I don't think that we've been presented with adequate means to determine that, nor have I made any such claim..........along some ridiculous, well, the lightbulb energy aint sentient so neither is the brain energy.......wtf? I was asking about the reverse......assuming the brain energy -is- sentient....what rules out the lightbulb energy? 3 and 4 doesn't rescue that..because it's the brain we observe responding to stimuli....and that's just an organ (which is a candidate for 5...lol), 1 is irrelevant in the case of the lightbulb - but amusingly it fits just as well, 2 is as true for the bulb as the brain (or anything).
As mentioned before, it seems -in your "theory"- that some energy is sentient whilst other energy is not. Tell me how to determine that? That failure condition is really, really important right about now. I need to know how to tell that it's the energy, specifically, and not something else or some combination, that's sentient, and how to distinguish between sentient and non-sentient energy. I;m not trying to argue -against- your theory here, I'm trying to help make it more resistent to objection......after simply accepting sentient energy as a given.
As mentioned before, it seems -in your "theory"- that some energy is sentient whilst other energy is not. Tell me how to determine that? That failure condition is really, really important right about now. I need to know how to tell that it's the energy, specifically, and not something else or some combination, that's sentient, and how to distinguish between sentient and non-sentient energy. I;m not trying to argue -against- your theory here, I'm trying to help make it more resistent to objection......after simply accepting sentient energy as a given.
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