On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6:01:19 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > > On 30 January 2014 11:39, Craig Weinberg <[email protected] <javascript:> > > wrote: > >> On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 5:38:04 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: >> >>> On 30 January 2014 11:24, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 1:34:48 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]>wrote: >>>>> >>>>> > NO ROOM CAN BE CONSCIOUS. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> And we know that because we can say it in all capital letters, or >>>>> possibly from the teachings of two of your favorite subjects, astrology >>>>> and >>>>> numerology. >>>>> >>>> >>>> The all caps were in response to Bruno's all caps, and no, you don't >>>> need astrology and numerology to understand that rooms are not haunted by >>>> the spirits of system-hood. >>>> >>> >>> Imagine a small, roughly spherical room made out of a fairly hard >>> material something like limestone. Make a few holes in it, fill it with >>> some goop with the consistency of blancmange, decorate with sense organs >>> and throw in a body. >>> >>> Et voila! >>> >> >> Voila, a cadaver. >> >> Unless *all *such objects are cadavers, this "disproves" the statement > that *no *room can be conscious. > > (I must admit the idea that "no room can be conscious" seems to demand > qualification...) >
All such objects would be cadavers, in the absence of some subjective experience which is being expressed. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
