On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 09:16:27AM -0700, meekerdb wrote: > > If your altered state of consciousness has no self-awareness, is it > still "consciousness"? And there's self-consciousness, i.e. being > aware you are thinking. So it's not 'fading' qualia, it different > categories of consciousness. I'd say my dog has self-awareness, > e.g. he knows his name. But I'm not so sure he is self-conscious. > The koi in my pond are aware, but I doubt they are self-aware. >
Just out of curiosity, where do you think my operational definition of consciousness being a member of the reference class of anthropic reasoning fits into your quadripartite classification? Is being a dog a valid state for the anthropic reference class? Being a koi? All I know is that most animals are not valid members of the reference class. Hence my "ants are not conscious" paper. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
