RE: On naturalism and consciousness
September 3, 2014 at 7:56 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2014 at 7:59 pm by bennyboy.)
@Rhythm
I'ts usually said of someone that doesn't agree with a differing opinion that he doesn't "get" the position. Let me try to paraphrase your view (and to add a compatible narrative for some parts) as well as I can, and you tell me where I've missed the mark (if you don't mind taking the time).
"The most fundamental component of mind is the gate (or at least a mechanism which can be theoretically represented by a collection of gates). So the difference between 'stuff' and 'data' is that the data have served as the input into a gate or gate-like mechanism. A percept is a collection of data which represent a property of a thing being observed: color, shape, etc. An idea is a complex interrelation of processed data which can be said to be 'about' something, involving both symbolized percepts and relationships between them. The mind is the interrelation of new ideas, stored ideas and currently-observed percepts. Any mechanism capable of collecting percepts and forming ideas by filtering data through a collection of logic gates is thinking, and should be said to have a mind."
Is this a fair representation?
I'ts usually said of someone that doesn't agree with a differing opinion that he doesn't "get" the position. Let me try to paraphrase your view (and to add a compatible narrative for some parts) as well as I can, and you tell me where I've missed the mark (if you don't mind taking the time).
"The most fundamental component of mind is the gate (or at least a mechanism which can be theoretically represented by a collection of gates). So the difference between 'stuff' and 'data' is that the data have served as the input into a gate or gate-like mechanism. A percept is a collection of data which represent a property of a thing being observed: color, shape, etc. An idea is a complex interrelation of processed data which can be said to be 'about' something, involving both symbolized percepts and relationships between them. The mind is the interrelation of new ideas, stored ideas and currently-observed percepts. Any mechanism capable of collecting percepts and forming ideas by filtering data through a collection of logic gates is thinking, and should be said to have a mind."
Is this a fair representation?
