RE: On naturalism and consciousness
August 30, 2014 at 9:39 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2014 at 9:40 pm by bennyboy.)
(August 30, 2014 at 9:15 pm)Rhythm Wrote: -or a modern computerIf we are really talking about a switch in worldview from substance duality to property duality/ambiguism, I'd see that as a conflation of idealistic and physical monisms. In other words, you by definition couldn't have matter without mind and vice versa, because they are two faces of the same coin. My personal guess would be that all potential energy would be seen as a kind of experiential potential, and all energetic interchanges would involve a kind of quantum "mind" or consciousness.
The implication of this is that any physical system which produces organized data flow would necessarily be conscious-- not maybe, or not in some cases. And that would include an ANN, especially under the condition that the system has an ongoing feedback loop such that parts of the network were constantly firing.
The other implication would be that consciousness is both layered and fluid, and that divisions among systems would be arbitrary, due to conservation of energy.
spacetime full of mindmatter, anyone?
