I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaack! I lost my desire to post due to an existential crisis, but now I've regained it thanks to the above comic.
On 5 May 2014 08:12, John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote: > Telmo, some 2+ decades ago I think I had a reason to avert from the topic > called *panpsychism* (would be hard to recall it adequately now). > As I remember I called the phenomenon covered by this misnomer > PANSENSITIVITY (what I would not like to defend today anymore). Psych seems > to me too 'human' to be applicable to the entire world (=Mme. Nature). > Why would you reduce the MWI reflexibility into ourflimsy human > brainfunctions? > (Even i f you extend them into <human?> mentality total). > > > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:48 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Sunday, May 4, 2014 1:43:12 PM UTC+1, telmo_menezes wrote: >>>> >>>> The machine: >>>> http://existentialcomics.com/comic/1 >>>> >>>> Bad news from the doctor: >>>> http://existentialcomics.com/comic/11 >>>> >>>> Turing test: >>>> http://existentialcomics.com/comic/15 >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Telmo. >>>> >>> >>> >>> So where do you stand on this Telmo? I suppose I've rather raised my >>> hopes that your answer, like mine, is not straight forward. >>> >> >> I have no explanation for consciousness. My current inclination is >> panpsychism. >> >> >>> Maybe just because I'm just lonely since Liz walked out on me...this >>> vague cloud of abstraction never seemed so cavernous when she was around, >>> her 70's punk echoing through the theory of nothing that - well you know >>> itt wasn't a theory, but maybe it wasn't nuthin' neither. >>> >> >> Hey, I like 70's punk rock too! >> >> >>> >>> Seriously, I saw a hint of scientific realism in something you said at >>> some point. Nearly vanished but managed to block my ears when you started >>> talking about consciousness not between the ears. Don't do that. >>> >> >> I believe that science is the only valid tool we have to understand >> public reality. If you have a good "consciousness between the ears" theory >> then... I'm all ears. Other theories are ok too. My position is that what >> makes a theory scientific is it's falsifiability, that's all. It doesn't >> matter how weird the theory sounds, it only matters if it makes valid >> predictions or not. Common sense has been shown to be misleading many >> times, and to an amazing degree with quantum mechanics. >> >> I am not sure that consciousness will ever be investigated by science, >> because I'm not sure it will ever be possible to measure it or test for >> it's presence. In this case (or meanwhile), we have to make do with thought >> experiments and introspection on private reality. >> >> Telmo. >> >>> -- >>> 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/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
