RE: A Conscious Universe
February 7, 2015 at 1:19 pm
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2015 at 1:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 7, 2015 at 11:13 am)bennyboy Wrote: 1) Evolution is a great idea, but not when it causes people to start making up imaginary narratives in which they outline any trait they want to explain in terms of fitness.Is there actually any particular statement that I made you'd like to take issue with? Do you think, for example, that brains evolved to seek truth? We could have that discussion, after all....or you could wave a very salient point about our brains (and every potion of our bodies) away "because".....
Quote:2) I've never exprienced a charging boar, but I've experienced other significantly dangerous events, and I'm pretty sure I was aware not only of the singular fact of the threat, but of many individual aspects in the environment.You mean that there wasn't any unity of experience at all? -Pixels on the screen
Quote: And yet, they were bound together by some kind of unifying factor-- maybe "me," or maybe something else.-and yet there was? -adding up to a bouncing ball
See, you need to decide whether it's a singular experience, or a bunch of experiences held together by a singular interpretation or POV(I won't have any trouble modeling the latter mechanically either btw).
You and I are actually in agreement on this both in principle and in experience btw. I think that you -are- something else....lol.
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