On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 08:55:09PM -0700, Pierz wrote: > > Anyway it seems that if we're committed to computationalism plus Church > thesis, then we have to consider the possibility that evolution may be a > conscious process - indeed the onus should be on us to say why it *wouldn't* > be > conscious.
I don't think we know enough about consciousness to really say one way or the other, so no the onus is not on anyone. Nevertheless, I highly suspect that our human consciousnesses are in fact evolutionary processes, which I know is an answer to a very different question. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
