RE: On naturalism and consciousness
September 1, 2014 at 7:32 pm
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2014 at 7:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 1, 2014 at 6:59 pm)bennyboy Wrote: So to answer the question: "What causes mind to exist rather than not," how can you separate any given complex physical system as a meaningful processor (and therefore having a mind)I think a meaningful processor could occur at a much lower lvl than "mind" could occur. I'd call plants "meaningful processors" but not "mind".
Quote:and any other system as not?Observation. A combination of effect and architecture.
Quote:It seems to me that all particles in the universe are necessarily brought into relation with each other, and that any randomly-selected set of particles, no matter where they are, could be seen as outputting "meaningful" results.Not as gates, no. Nor as computation. Almost everything could be made into a gate, sure - that doesn't mean that almost everything -is- a gate. Computation is possible wherever logic is possible, that doesn't mean that computation is -occurring- wherever logic is possible.
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