On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com>wrote:
> What I see that he has not considered is that consciousness is a the > function of uniqueness itself > For me to understand what you mean by this you need to answer one question, was the Email message that you sent to the Everything list on Sunday Sep 23, 2012 at 9:13 AM on the east coast of the USA with the title "Re:Zombieopolis Thought Experiment" unique? > the accumulated history of experience, seen to us as matter > Without information to organize it matter doesn't seem like much of anything, its just a chaotic amorphous lump of stuff containing nothing of interest. > I see only coma and death as the replacement neurons encroach on the > brain stem > Because you believe that the neurons are doing something magical, even though the scientific method can not find one scrap of evidence that they are doing any such thing. No doubt you will say that science doesn't know everything and just hasn't found the answer, but the problem is that science hasn't even found evidence that there is a question that needs answering, or if you prefer to put it another way, science hasn't found any evidence that a intelligent conscious computer is more impossible than a intelligent conscious human. Unless you can show at a fundamental level that biology has something that electronics lacks we must conclude that If computers can't be conscious then neither can humans. > irreversible damage would occur just as it would with dementia or a > malignant brain tumor. > I would say that would be more like a benign brain tumor, in fact given that it performs exactly like the original brain cells it would not be going too far to call it an Infinitely benign brain tumor. John K Clark -- 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.
