RE: Seeing red
January 22, 2016 at 10:18 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2016 at 10:54 pm by bennyboy.)
(January 22, 2016 at 8:41 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:
mind
noun
1.
the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought.
In this instance, the robot drivers would have intentionality, but not mind. For the universe to have mind, it would have to be able to have intentionality about its own existence; this is unlikely. The same for molecules and atoms as they lack a means of representing their environment internally.
What's the difference in intentionality, in your opinion, between a human brain and a galaxy? As far as I can tell, it's both just a bunch of busy work, with the difference being that we know the human brain experiences qualia, and we assume that a galaxy does not.
