RE: Physics, Hindu Cosmology, God and New Age Inspiration
March 19, 2014 at 9:29 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2014 at 9:30 pm by Mudhammam.)
(March 19, 2014 at 9:26 pm)GirlyMan Wrote:(March 19, 2014 at 9:23 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Just curious, how do you define "emergent property" Whenever I hear that term I think of this comic:
Behavior which could not have been reasonably anticipated from an examination of the combination of the individual parts.
It's kind of presumptuous to apply that to consciousness, isn't it? Who's to say that if a complete network of neural activity was sufficiently analyzed and understood, consciousness couldn't be "easily" replicated?