On Monday, October 15, 2012 12:14:55 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 Craig Weinberg <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > > > Since we know that our consciousness >> > > You don't know diddly squat about "our consciousness", you only know about > your consciousness; assuming of course that you are conscious, if not then > you don't even know that. >
If that were true, then you don't know diddly squat about what I know. You can't have it both ways. Either it is possible that we know things or it is not. You can't claim to be omniscient about my ignorance. > > > is exquisitely sensitive to particular masses of specific chemicals, yet >> relatively tolerant of other kinds of chemical changes, >> > > And a computer is exquisitely sensitive to particular voltages and not > sensitive at all to other voltages that don't make the threshold. > Let's see how computer fares under a giant junkyard magnet. > > > it suggests that we should strongly suspect that COMP is a fantasy. >> > > And so the computer strongly suspects that biological consciousness is a > fantasy. > Maybe the doorknob thinks that hands aren't alive too? Maybe you can talk yourself into believing that sophistry, but I'm not buying it. Craig > > John K Clark > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/LqwEz7BiPGQJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
