RE: On naturalism and consciousness
August 17, 2014 at 11:19 am
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2014 at 11:23 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Meh, particles can clearly be "about something" or else computing would be impossible. Machine language and computational architecture depends upon particles having the ability to be "about something". Having something like programs, or services, or users (I would consider consciousness a service or user or program) enhances that capability, but even without any of those things a PCB is capable of "doing work" - of describing and then handling propositions. All you need to "do work" is an ALU and some inputs. It doesn't matter where those inputs come from, and it doesn't matter what the ALU is made out of, or how it's arranged. As such, it;s not conceptually impossible, or even conceptually difficult...for particles to be "beliefs".
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