RE: Sam Harris On Defining Consciousness
August 26, 2015 at 4:05 pm
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2015 at 4:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Here's another way of addressing what I'm asking Rhonda. Since response to stimuli doesn't work as a reason for accepting that the brain is aware or sentient.....why does it work as a reason for the same in sentient energy's case? Why is it relevant at all, and so why would a lack of response, for example.... rule out a lightbulb or lightbulb energy?
I'm assuming that it's true, that this response business is indicative of sentience in the case of "sentient energy" but not in the case of the brain or of a lightbulb..or....mystifyingly, of "lightbulb energy"........
We obviously have a special case here, so, I need to know the criteria of what makes it special...and here again I'm making a friendly assumption...that there is such an explanation.....so...what is it?
(as a minor aside, pursuant to your last post....might there be such a thing as sentient chemicals..as well?)
I'm assuming that it's true, that this response business is indicative of sentience in the case of "sentient energy" but not in the case of the brain or of a lightbulb..or....mystifyingly, of "lightbulb energy"........
We obviously have a special case here, so, I need to know the criteria of what makes it special...and here again I'm making a friendly assumption...that there is such an explanation.....so...what is it?
(as a minor aside, pursuant to your last post....might there be such a thing as sentient chemicals..as well?)
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