RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Univer...
June 1, 2014 at 7:42 pm
(June 1, 2014 at 7:28 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Right. One of the theories of consciousness is that it is information-driven, not dependent on a particular physical mechanism. So the question in that case is-- how much information has to be processed in order to say something has consciousness? Where's the magic line in the sand?
My guess is it would be arbitrary. It's kind of like asking how many water molecules do you need in order to have wetness.
Are we then speaking of emergence? Or a Searle type biological naturalism? Or are you stretching to the Bob Doyle i-Phi?