On 19 Sep 2014, at 02:03, meekerdb wrote:
On 9/18/2014 4:20 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
> We have no way to measure or detect consciousness,
That certainly isn't true in my case, there is one particular
consciousness that I'm very very good at detecting, and although I
can't prove it I have a hunch there is one consciousness you can
detect too.
Right, but you can't propose an experiment that tests the claim
that you are conscious or that I am conscious to a third party.
I don't know what you do for a living, Telmo, but I sure hope you're
not an anesthesiologist.
That reminds me reading somewhere that some anesthetic, the volatile
one, works for the paramecium (*).
That suggests a sort of argument that paramecium are conscious, as you
can anesthetize them. They indeed stop moving and certainly look
unconscious (!), but after a while, they wake up and regain activity :)
(*) Here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22684567
Bruno
Brent
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