RE: On naturalism and consciousness
August 31, 2014 at 8:44 am
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2014 at 8:45 am by bennyboy.)
@Rhythm
This most recent chain, as far as I can tell, was started with my comments about tjakey and Pickup_shonuff's ideas about property duality, but you want me to focus specifically on computation theory of mind. Let then me try and address your theory, instead of trying to carry on this confusing chain of mutual past-talking.
I like the fact that you've identified a specific process-- logic gating-- as a candidate for the supervenience (or simple equivalence?) of mind. My pet peeve is when people wave toward the brain dismissively, proclaiming, "Well, there it is-- obviously," and you aren't doing that.
My own physicalist theory is that mind is intrinsic to all energy exchanges, and that these happen exclusively at the subatomic and atomic levels. I wonder if you could consider events at the quantum level "logic gate" processes or not? It seems to me that discrete packet sizes of energy would lend well to OR/XOR/AND/XAND type comparisons.
This most recent chain, as far as I can tell, was started with my comments about tjakey and Pickup_shonuff's ideas about property duality, but you want me to focus specifically on computation theory of mind. Let then me try and address your theory, instead of trying to carry on this confusing chain of mutual past-talking.
I like the fact that you've identified a specific process-- logic gating-- as a candidate for the supervenience (or simple equivalence?) of mind. My pet peeve is when people wave toward the brain dismissively, proclaiming, "Well, there it is-- obviously," and you aren't doing that.
My own physicalist theory is that mind is intrinsic to all energy exchanges, and that these happen exclusively at the subatomic and atomic levels. I wonder if you could consider events at the quantum level "logic gate" processes or not? It seems to me that discrete packet sizes of energy would lend well to OR/XOR/AND/XAND type comparisons.
