LizR: Consciousness, in my vocabulary sounds like: Response to Relations, not a mental awarness in thinking/living creatures. Your views may be correct, if you accept conclusions drawn in the name of the present science upon the incomplete circumstances we already know of. Including Ccness as some mental awareness in living minds. Your 'evolutionary advantages' are triggered - maybe including - effects from so far even unreceived domains. Similarly I would think twice to call an extinction 'devolutionary'. My statement stays: I don't know. A tyranosaure - even with terrific 'enthusiasm' - could not resist to starving.
I accept your denigratory opinion rather than being part of a contemporary science - cheating/lying (theorizing?) based upon denied ignorance. Your humble agnostix On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:47 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 March 2015 at 10:39, John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't know. >> JM >> PS did I promise to solve the problems? Telling one's opinion is a free >> right, even w/o being obliged to redress things. I fought against >> reductionists and faithfuls, >> now I simply speak my mind. J. >> >> That's OK, of course. My problem is that I couldn't understand what you > were trying to say, so you didn't actually even manage to "tell your > opinion". It just looked like random sniping with no actual meaning. (Maybe > it was?) > > Anyway, my original point still stands. Consciousness may confer some > evolutionary advantage. (e.g. a sense of self may mean an organism responds > to threats and so on with greater enthusiasm that it would if operating on > reflex). > > Any sensible objections / refutations welcome. > > -- > 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.
