(August 26, 2014 at 10:06 pm)bennyboy Wrote: In an idealistic monism, all that exists is reducible only to ideas. That includes everything we experience, including the human brain.Your answers aren't ignored they're refuted. And the question is asked again. Your conflating the idea of storing experience and the action of storing experience; the idea of a storage device and the existence of a storage device. There is a difference between ideas, actions, and existence. So where are your storage devices?
So my answer is still: the brain, so far as I know.
Quote:If an ANN would be able to pass the Turning Test than there is no question (or set of questions) you can ask it that doesn't sound like a human. Since humans have consciousness, then you cannot distinquish it from having consciousness. If you cannot distinquish the two, then they are equivalent. Hense, the ANN has developed consciousness.Quote:Bullshit. Each of these processes has been demonstated to exist via science. Abiogenesis takes non living matter and changes it to living matter. Evolution takes the living matter and gets to neurons. Finally, a collection of neurons create a mind.And by what mechanisms do neurons create the mind? What exactly is it about a particular physical system that allows actual experience to exist, rather than just a biological computer processing input and producing a behavioral output?
Quote:First off, thats a nice narrative, but where is your explanation?Quote:You still didn't answer why different subsets would have similiar experiences unless the subsets are similiar. In your monism world view, what guarantee's similiar subsets?First of all, by subsets, you are talking about people. People are similar because they are composed similarly, and have access to some of the same experiences.
Also, your missing the point. Why should humans be composed similarly? Why should humans have access to the same experiences?