Brent, Telmo and all others 'consciousness' anchored members: It is an easy cop-out to say the "c" term is too complicated to be identified. If we want to use it we better knowWHAT we wnt to use. My definition is "response to relations" - another cop-out, because it is hard to identify RELATION (and of course: a 'response' to it). But it widens the scope from a 'human mental summersault' into a characteristic of the 'existence' (what is THAT?) applicable all over. OUR OWN "Consciousness" is a fine attribute as usually applied, not satisfactory for me. I tried to make it more extended/expanded - universal. E.g. an electrode is conscious of a nearby charge (and vice versa) and a mass-particle about another one feeling gravitation, if we identified all these terms. I did not.
It also reverberates on the term 'conscious' of course. A.S.O. John M On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:27 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 1/21/2015 3:48 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > If you completely discard the concept of "truth" and replace it entirely >> with "evolutionary usefulness" - does that change anything? >> > > I think it might. For example, suppose we all share the same > consciousness. It is evolutionary useful to maintain the illusion that this > is not the case (thus my previous rant). > > > If you "start with consciousness" then it is fundamental that > consciousness if not shared - otherwise I'd be conscious of it. > > Brent > > -- > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
