On 8/8/2011 5:28 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Aug 8, 7:18 pm, meekerdb<[email protected]> wrote:
It has the capacity to understand what the temperature is and what it's
supposed to be. You're just showing your carbon racism because my
thermostat is made of glass and metal.
To be clear, I do suspect that each metal strip, and any metal strip,
may be 'aware' of temperature (it's own) but that's not an abstract
'understanding'. The thermostat device as a whole is only a coherent
machine from our perspective. Without us, each part of the thermostat
is just a coincidentally adjacent object, having no unifying
subjective sense amongst the parts.
Unlike those carbon atoms in neurons?
Brent
Craig
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