Re: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

2023-09-24 Thread 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List
ding one in the press.   To label it pseudoscience arbitrarily is a bridge too far and does not reflect well on the signees.   On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:08 PM John Clark wrote: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience" John K Clark    See what's on my new list a

Re: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

2023-09-21 Thread Dylan Distasio
it was written by a bunch of high schoolers > who are butthurt that their pet theories of consciousness are not the > leading one in the press. To label it pseudoscience arbitrarily is a > bridge too far and does not reflect well on the signees. > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:08 PM

Re: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

2023-09-21 Thread Brent Meeker
t theories of consciousness are not the leading one in the press.   To label it pseudoscience arbitrarily is a bridge too far and does not reflect well on the signees. On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:08 PM John Clark wrote: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience" <https://

Re: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

2023-09-21 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 3:00 PM Jason Resch wrote: > *By its own definitions IIT is not falsifiable, for it proclaims that a > computer program that gave identical behavior in all situations to another > conscious system, would not be conscious. But since it has identical > behavior there is no

Re: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

2023-09-21 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:43 PM Dylan Distasio wrote: *> Having read that letter, I don't find it very becoming of the scientists > writing it who should know better. Regardless of what you think about > IIT and its merits or lack thereof, it results in some predictions that can > be tested* >

Re: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

2023-09-21 Thread Jason Resch
f a system, but at the last moment, it insists that a computer implementing that same causal organization would not be conscious. Jason On Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 2:08 PM John Clark wrote: > Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience" > <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-

Re: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

2023-09-21 Thread Dylan Distasio
on the signees. On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:08 PM John Clark wrote: > Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience" > <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02971-1?utm_source=Nature+Briefing_campaign=84936ca310-briefing-dy-20230921_medium=email_term=0_c9dfd39373-84936ca310-4

Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

2023-09-21 Thread John Clark
Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience" <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02971-1?utm_source=Nature+Briefing_campaign=84936ca310-briefing-dy-20230921_medium=email_term=0_c9dfd39373-84936ca310-44221073> John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at E