(March 16, 2016 at 11:35 am)Rhythm Wrote: I have a tablet powered down right here in front of me...what do you think it's computing?Nothing. But I'm not asserting that Windows is a CPU.
Quote:Do you really need an answer to that? I mean, I can list the ways, but. . . ru serius?Quote:Organic nerves and neurotransimtters.In what way are they unique? A silicon chip and an analog tube are unique in relation to each other...and yet......
Quote:Actually it's a detailed way to explain why you were wrong about processing and comp..and how that might relate to mind or qualia...I can understand why you'd ignore the former.I don't care about processing and comp unless it addresses qualia as what it's like to experience things.
Quote:Your computer is most definitely behind flaming bears dropping on people heads. Your qualia regarding annie at mid is a description of that machines operation. It's may be other things as well, but there's no sense in pretending that your computer doesn't have anything to do with your qualia in the case of experiencing a computer game.I didn't say the computer has nothing to do with my qualia. I said that there are probably no qualia in the computer-- at least not of the type you are describing.
Quote:You won't be satisfied, making the question tedious. I could tell you, for example, that we've located the place in the brain where the experience of color resides. I;d be referring to science though, which is insufficient, as things may not be as they seem.Links.
Quote:It appears that it happens across the entire brain. If you're asking me to point to a single place when I don't think there is a single place, and when all the evidence available cannot identify a single place...instead telling us that it;s a conglomerate of actions....then you're attempting to object by irrational means. How come there are no crocoducks?Right. There's no single place. And yet, there are my water bottle, an old beer bottle, the sound of my dog snoring, the smell of my dinner leftovers, and at the center of it is me, my agency. Where is it? Give me even a plausible lead.
Quote:How is it that this comment of yours here manages to overcome your own objections anyway? Maybe it just -seems- like there's a single sense of agency......Maybe. The Buddhists would probably agree with you, I think.
