RE: What is the current best scientific evidence we have that shows that consciousness...
January 13, 2025 at 3:03 am
(January 13, 2025 at 2:35 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: We still don't fully understand how photosynthesis works, but to say that it probably has something to do with plants seems to undersell what we do know. I don't fully understand how my car works either, but I'm fairly confident that it's a car despite my specific ignorance. We do have a scientific understanding of how systems and processes can arrive at such conclusions and what those constructs are useful for - btw, in control theory, but we'll probably discover that the process(es) which give rise to our consciousness are different or additional-to such things. Biology isn't an engineer building things before the fact for specific ranges of function and robust error checking, and all that jazz
Not a good analogy. We have no understanding of how consciousness works. Absolutely none.
While you may be ignorant of how your car works, there are engineers who understand exactly how it works because they designed it. Nobody currently has any clue at all as to how consciousness works. There is only speculation. I admit that there is a mountain of evidence suggesting it is an emergent property of brain processes. Nevertheless, I will not claim that it definitely is so because I lack the confidence to say that. I assume it is but that is as far as I will go. If you have the confidence to claim that it is definitely a process of brain processes, then go ahead and make the claim. I won't argue with you about it because I don't know.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein