On 09 Oct 2012, at 19:07, meekerdb wrote:
On 10/9/2012 7:17 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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.
What illusion? The illusion of self?
The illusion possible in all consciousness content, except 'being
conscious here and now' itself.
Careful: illusion can be true, sometimes. I use "illusion" like we use
"number" even for 0 and 1, despite "number" meant 'numerous'.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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