(May 29, 2013 at 7:20 pm)bennyboy Wrote: The short answer is I don't know. I don't like the word supernatural, though.
The particular speculation that I gravitate to is the one that I just said-- I think it's more likely that mind of some kind is intrinsic to the physics of the universe, rather than miraculously spawning due to the arrangement of particular organic structures on a little blue dot in an inconsequential solar system in one of a gazillion galaxies. THAT is an assumption that I find hard to swallow.
I'm interested in understanding why you gravitate towards mind being an emergent property of universal physics rather than being an emergent property of the brain; particularly, since the only example of mind, as we are discussing it, is located in only one species on our mundane little speck of dust. Without some argument, your position seems more incredible.
(May 29, 2013 at 7:20 pm)bennyboy Wrote: It may be that consciousness IS complex information processing, and is not dependent on any particular physical structure (i.e. the brain).
What information does a mind have to process without the brain? You are now faced with concocting some method of communication between the brain and the mind.
