On 08 Oct 2012, at 19:35, meekerdb wrote:
On 10/8/2012 8:42 AM, John Clark wrote:
2) Intelligent behavior is NOT associated with subjective
experience, in which case there is no reason for Evolution to
produce consciousness and I have no explanation for why I am here,
and I have reason to believe that I am the only conscious being in
the universe.
There's a third possibility: Intelligent behavior is sometimes
associated with subjective experience and sometimes not. Evolution
may have produced consciousness as a spandrel, an accident of the
particular developmental path that evolution happened upon. Or it
may be that consciousness is necessarily associated with only
certain kinds of intelligent behavior, e.g. those related to language.
Consciousness is when you bet in your consistency, or in a reality, to
help yourself.
Consciousness precedes language, but follows perception and sensation.
It unifies the interpretation of the senses, making the illusion
possible.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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