(March 19, 2014 at 9:35 pm)GirlyMan Wrote:(March 19, 2014 at 9:29 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: 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?
Fuck dude, that's what I just said. And presumptuous? No. I'm suggesting a threshold degree of complexity after which any system will exhibit emergent properties.
Oh okay. I just think "emergent properties" causes more confusion than clarity.. but you mean by it something like a spandrel?