On 9/19/2014 8:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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 :)
But Telmo can't tell the difference - which is why I hoped he didn't work as an
anesthesiologist. :-)
Brent
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