On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Stephen Paul King <stephe...@charter.net> wrote: > Hi Bruno, > > Pretty freaking cool post! A few comments... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruno Marchal > Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 7:27 AM > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: consciousness > > > On 01 Jul 2011, at 13:23, selva kumar wrote: > >> Is consciousness causally effective ? >> >> I found this question in previous threads,but I didn't find a answer. > > [Bruno Marchal] > Was it in the FOR list (on the book Fabric of reality by David > Deutsch) ? I thought I did answer this question, which is a very > important and fundamental question. > > It is also a tricky question, which is very similar or related to the > question of free-will, and it can lead to vocabulary issue. I often > defend the idea that consciousness is effective. Indeed the role I > usually defend for consciousness is a relative self-speeding up > ability. Yet the question is tricky, especially due to the presence of > the "causally", which is harder to grasp or define than > "consciousness" itself.
I'm not following this thread closely, but it seems to me that the question in the subject line is a spurious one. It is like asking, Is the motion of a car along the road causally effective, or is it the chemical reaction resulting in the combustion of fuel in the cylinders which is causally effective? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
