On Friday, March 14, 2014 9:50:17 AM UTC-4, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Friday, March 14, 2014 2:12:15 AM UTC, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH2QXQu-HGE >> >> A brief, handy rebuttal to materialistic views of consciousness. I would >> go further, and say that information, even though it is immaterial in its >> conception, is still derived from the principles of object interaction. >> Even when forms and functions are divorced from any particular physical >> substance, they are still tethered to the third person omniscient view - >> artifacts of communication *about* rather *appreciation of*. Real >> experiences are not valued just because they inform us about something or >> other, they are valued because of their intrinsic aesthetic and semantic >> content. It’s not even content, it is the experience itself. Information >> must be made evident through sensory participation, or it is nothing at all. >> > > I don't know what the materialistic view is, but consciousness is going to > phenomenon of the material in the brain, and its evolution will be as an > extension of the same general dynamics of evolution, much of which repeats > and patterns. >
Can you say that there can be dynamics and pattern without consciousness though? How is consciousness different than what would be required for patterns to exist? > There's always a chance its extra dimensional or spiritual, or in need of > a new kind of thinking that brings theology into play, or god. Or maybe > Bruno's 'discovery' that it cannot be be discovered. That's always > available. Always has been. Was a time chemistry was undiscoverable. > Science is the story of discovering the undiscoverable. > > I think the story is at risk of coming to an end. Not because it had to, > but because the line of the road was lost. It's not just the way frontier > science has gone the last 50 years. It's also what's happened in the > Western society. Destructive forces have been in play. Sadly the West was > lost to them. As things stand it's hard to see the turn around. Will take > heroes like never before. I'd call it a day...if it wasn't the West. They > discovered science and other miracles from among them. Maybe from among > them they'll produce the heroes that will save this day. > Sure, or maybe the heroism will go another way instead - with many people withdrawing their support from what the world has become? Cragi -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
