RE: Mind is the brain?
March 30, 2016 at 9:08 pm
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2016 at 9:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 30, 2016 at 8:00 pm)bennyboy Wrote: For example, I have a theory that every exchange of energy (read: information), via photon or electron, could represent a nanoscopic "spark" of mind, i.e. that mind is intrinsic to matter and to everything in the universe, but not in a form that we can easily recognize. If this is the case, then the brain represents a FORM of elements of mind into a more complex arrangement, but really isn't responsible for psychogony-- the existence of mind.You have an exceedingly low bar for what satisfies you as a theory....and mind, I think. I have to ask though, if you have this theory, why do you reel against the notion of a machine mind? Against a toaster that feels? You seem to think that there can be information processing -without- mind...ala a claculator or your pc, and that mind is more than "just processing" - as you've said many, many times....and both positions would be entirely inconsistent with that theory above.
In any case, you described a situation in which information exchange was intrinsic to matter, in which matter interacts. Not exactly newsworthy, and we'd have to allow some liberty to call interaction information exhange in and of itself, but hey, we can be flexible, eh? Not sure why you call that mind, or even spark of mind. I've got a notoriously low bar for what I'd accept as a candidate for mind and that doesn't even cut it for me. Sand falling through an hourglass.....just look at all that mind, right?
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