(March 22, 2016 at 4:28 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I'd be willing to bet that something as complex as mental activity takes into account many different levels of processing, and trying to assign it to one arena of activity (if you'll pardon the clunky term) is probably misguided.Would you allow that if mental activity is about the flow of information, the most fundamental activity would be that of the most basic interchange of information? See, the irony of this thread is that I'm trying to treat mind as NOT a special case, or a magi-mysterious thing, but as something intrinsic to matter.
Quote:Does this look like an android?If mind is not intrinsic to ALL energetic transfers, then by what magical process would energy transfer be mind?
No, you're talking to a real live human being. That's who you're talking to: me. If you cannot tell that I'm not an android, well, perhaps you should study people more and philosophy less?
Where would that mind reside, do you think? How might it operate absent living processes? What energy transfer would fuel the process?