RE: Quantum consciousness...
August 16, 2017 at 6:04 pm
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2017 at 6:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 16, 2017 at 5:44 pm)bennyboy Wrote:The hills you want to die on will never cease to amaze me.(August 16, 2017 at 11:04 am)Khemikal Wrote: From one crazy ass thing to another, eh?Sure there's truth in context. Is it true that giving up your queen for a pawn is the best move? That depends first on the particular arrangements of pieces on the board, and ultimately on whether you're even playing chess.We've been down the rabbit hole before, and..to paraphrase, there is no such thing as "truth in context" as you use the terms. When a question has more than one answer..either something in the question is amiss, or there are two or more subtle questions hiding in what seems to be a singular query.
Quote:Is it good to jump into a vat of acid? That depends on how you define "good." Your definition provides the context in/by which actions may be defined as good or bad. In the context of you trying to survive, it's clearly bad. In the context of you trying to minimize your impact on the world, it's good.You mean, it depends on how many questions are being asked and which one a person responds too? Gee....that -totally- demolishes my comments on your bastshit proposition.
Quote:Nevertheless, mind holds a special place, because it's the only idea which is first projected, rather than inferred from observation. The reason for this is obvious-- all observations are made through the medium of mental agency.Special? Not to me, maybe to you. Thermometers don't seem to possess mental agency. / shrugs.
Quote:The idea is that consciousness is intrinsic to the Universe-- it's the default state, not a special-snowflake state. It is the context established by neural connections which get bundled together to give the impression of human agency.-and in the context of that idea, what sense does it make to say that we can;t observe consciousness? In that context, it's even easier to observe than a less looney explanation of the same. All I have to do is look at -anything- and I've observed consciousness. Ta-Da. In your pathological need to object, you've created a caricature in your own positions of exactly what you object to. Gratz.
In a familiar way, I'd say this is why we don't remember dreams well. When that context established by your name and other aspects of your world view come flooding back, those vaguer perceptions with less well-established contexts get eclipsed.
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