RE: Seeing red
January 21, 2016 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2016 at 12:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:Well, this is not really different than say a photon leaving the sun and being absorbed by an atom in a rock on Earth.
No it isn't...and yet you think there's mind there, somewhere, somehow..... While we can, in edge cases, do without a great deal of our nuerons, there's no reason to believe that a single nueron has mind, let alone that a "single body transmitting or receiving a photon" has mind. You seem to realize this yourself, deciding instead to call it "a primitive perception". Well, a camera has a little bit -more- than a primitive perception - of the type described. Why do we lapse back into "mind" in our conclusion? Are we talking about the sort of "mind" that a camera possesses...is that the sort of "mind" that's intrinsic to all matter? Meh, you can have it. I call that material interaction, information. Photons hitting rocks don't seem to produce the phenomena we're discussing when we discuss mind.
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