On Monday, February 24, 2014 12:45:36 AM UTC, David Nyman wrote: > > On 23 February 2014 17:27, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > > John Searle in one of his papers proposes that if our brain were being >> gradually replaced we would find ourselves losing qualia while declaring >> that everything was normal, and being unable to make any protest to the >> contrary. >> > > Replaced with what though? I assume he must stipulate non-biological > components that supposedly replicate brain "function", although I would > guess that the idea of a substitution level hasn't occurred to him > explicitly. That said, the idea seems preposterous on its face. > > >> This would imply that we think with something other than our brain, a >> soul equivalent, and that in certain situations the brain and this soul >> equivalent can become decoupled. >> > > Yes it would seem to imply that. I'd never realised that Searle would > infer anything like that on the basis of his so-called biological > naturalism. Mind you, since he is at least implicitly a materialist, I > never had much of a clue what he meant in appealing to some unspecified > non-functional "causal power" of the brain to produce consciousness. AFAIK > he never elaborated this beyond a brute stipulation that this is how the > brain can bypass his no-semantics-from-syntax prohibition (something like > the brain produces consciousness like the liver produces bile). > > David > Yo David, You said somewhere you had a thought for how consciousness might be. I'm into that one at the moment so I'd be interested to hear anything you have to say. Assuming it's not secret squirrel - which if it is mazel tov geezer you go for it
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