On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 06:32:21PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: > > Do we have any reason to believe ideas reproduce with variation and > then those that reproduce most successfully rise to consciousness? > THAT would be a Darwinian theory of consciousness. > > Brent
Dennett's pandemonium theory would seem to be like that. Of course, there must be differences in the details between conscious thought and biological evolution - for example, thought may well be Lamarckian in character (like cultural evolution). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
