On 30 January 2014 12:09, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6:01:19 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > >> On 30 January 2014 11:39, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> 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. > What about anaesthesia and dreamless sleep? -- 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.
