Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intell...
May 21, 2014 at 12:43 am
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2014 at 12:47 am by Rampant.A.I..)
(May 21, 2014 at 12:34 am)bennyboy Wrote:(May 20, 2014 at 10:55 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Probably because your question makes no sense.No. The brain is an evolved mechanism of problem solving for survival. It takes in physical input, processes it through an algorithm, and outputs behaviors. You haven't explained why it is necessary for a person's brain to ACTUALLY experience its environment as a sentient agent, rather than just processing its inputs and dutifully outputting its behaviors.
Consciousness is an evolved mechanism of problem solving for survival.
On the contrary, as many animals display the same sort if consciousness, you haven't explained why it's unnecessary, nor why evolutionary psychology is highly accurate at explaining behavior.
Simply, you are arguing that less complex algorithms are better adaptations to the environment than more complex abstract thought.
You're still working off the idea that all nonhuman animals are not conscious, and are mere automatons, a 17th century view you've been informed is not accurate, and yet you continue to strawman with it.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness
Quote:The adaptationist approach is steadily increasing as an influence in the general field of psychology.[2][3]
Evolutionary psychologists suggest that EP is not simply a subdiscipline of psychology but that evolutionary theory can provide a foundational, metatheoretical framework that integrates the entire field of psychology, in the same way it has for biology.[4][5][6]
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology
