RE: Free Will
September 1, 2016 at 10:14 am
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2016 at 10:17 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 1, 2016 at 10:12 am)Yoo Wrote: First of all, I was talking about a function in the evolutionary sense. So painting a work of art or inventing a moon lander isn't precisely what I was thinking of, hehe.Yes it was. Painting a work of art and inventing moon landers -are- evolutionary functions. What do you think makes us such badasses, evolutionarily?
Quote:Secondly, I've never understood how people could make sense of the idea that qualia are, literally, brain activity. "They don't come from brain activity, they are brain activity." That has never made sense to me. Could you explain it?Sure. In the same way that computation -is- the state of the gate assembly...qualia -is- the state of the neural correlate. Neither are some separate substance or thing, they are descriptions -of- that thing.
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