RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'?
May 31, 2015 at 1:30 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2015 at 1:31 am by bennyboy.)
(May 30, 2015 at 2:26 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Is a sleepwalker awake or asleep, or are waking and sleeping vague states with no clear boundary between the two?Actually, I think that's a perfect example. First of all, I know that sleepwalkers don't remember much-- but that doesn't necessarily mean the person wasn't awake and aware-- perhaps it just got scrambled in the transition to full wakefulness. I know many people who say they don't dream, and that they probably DO dream and just don't realize it upon awaking. I do not know if sleep-walking is related to this, though.
If there's really no subjective experience of that process, then I'd say there is no mind there, even though the body is doing many of the things a conscious person would do. In fact, I'd say this situation sheds real light on ideas about whether computers can ever be said to have a "mind."
(May 30, 2015 at 2:38 pm)whateverist Wrote: I have walked in my sleep. (Funny story, now.) It happens.
Did you remember any of it?
