On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:38 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 7:54 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > on Bruno's theory, consciousness is a binary attribute, all-or-nothing. >> Intelligence has degrees >> > > If that is true (and I'm not saying it is) then we can immediately > conclude that Bruno's theory is wrong because we know for a fact from > personal experience that consciousness does come in degrees just as > intelligence does. > I disagree. I think this is confusing consciousness with the content of your experience. You can be in a very alert mode, conscious of your surroundings and so on, or you can be going through an hypnagogic state conscious of some weird internal state. In both cases you are conscious, but the content of your experience is different. Telmo. > > John K Clark > > > -- > 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.
