RE: If beauty doesn't require God, why should morality? (Bite me Dr. Craig.)
July 27, 2014 at 11:05 pm
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2014 at 11:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I think you may be trying to read too much into my analogy. Nevertheless, many of the things you mentioned about steam also hold for qualia. Not all, of course, because steam isn't qualia.
If there is a selective pressure for the mechanism - then all products, and byproducts of that mechanism are being selected for.
I'd also like to point out...that if we were to create a "dead" machine that was as advanced as we are, able to perform all of our functions....we probably wouldn't be able to tell with certainty that it was, in fact, "dead" or that we were "alive"-in the sense we're using those words. We might say "Oh, well, we know who created you, we watched you come together from parts, we see your wiring carrying a charge and we know your subroutines" - at which point, he'd point at our skulls.
If there is a selective pressure for the mechanism - then all products, and byproducts of that mechanism are being selected for.
I'd also like to point out...that if we were to create a "dead" machine that was as advanced as we are, able to perform all of our functions....we probably wouldn't be able to tell with certainty that it was, in fact, "dead" or that we were "alive"-in the sense we're using those words. We might say "Oh, well, we know who created you, we watched you come together from parts, we see your wiring carrying a charge and we know your subroutines" - at which point, he'd point at our skulls.
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