RE: A hypothesis about consciousness
February 11, 2017 at 4:19 pm
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2017 at 4:25 pm by bennyboy.)
(February 11, 2017 at 12:03 pm)Won2blv Wrote:(February 11, 2017 at 5:05 am)bennyboy Wrote: Good ideas, but they are not original to you for the most part.
I honestly don't expect anyone to take my word for this but I concocted all of this yesterday. Then after I got excoriated on Reddit, I did some googling and found this article from a Princeton professor https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...ed/485558/
He is uh... a little more qualified at explaining it
Hey, you are learning and thinking. I wouldn't want to discourage that!
I'd ask you to consider the philosophical problems of consciousness as well-- how is it that ANY physical system, evolved or otherwise, can have subjective experience? It's easy to see how the brain would evolve in species, how it would process data in more and more complex ways-- but why would the organism actually have the experience of red as "red" for example?
(February 11, 2017 at 12:03 pm)Won2blv Wrote: Monkeys have also shown an ability to make tools, but I would argue that it is only because the creation is tangible and testable to the outer body. A monkey does not have the idea to make a hammer, but it does need to crack open a shell so it tests different ways and then remembers the best one.
Again, I'd suggest that google and scientific papers will show that many animals clearly DO have the ability to symbolize and to develop creative responses to their environment. I believe octopuses, parrots, and several other animals are capable of fairly high level thought.
