RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds.
April 5, 2014 at 10:47 pm
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2014 at 11:12 pm by Mudhammam.)
Quote:Consciousness is probably an emergent property of computations.
By what law or principle does that happen? At what level of computation does matter "mysteriously" gain a subjective quality that "feels" pain? It's easy to call something bat shit crazy when you just insert magic into the equation, which is what materialists essentially seem to be doing by saying that a cell is nothing but a cell but add enough of them together and now you have the experience of being a bunch of cells that together can think and tell his or her "self" stories about his or her "self"! Where does the quality of experience--consciousness, feeling--enter the picture according to presently known laws and what evolutionary advantage does it offer that mere computations don't?
