On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 at 18:17, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I always have a hard time seeing consciousness as causal. > > > Why, where is the mystery? If external information didn't CAUSE your > consciousness to change you might as well be blind and deaf, and if > consciousness didn't CAUSE external things to change you might as well be > paralyzed from the neck down . > > I meant and in the second sense. Take an artificial neural network driving a car. Like me, you suspect it might be conscious -- but we know the full mechanism. We know it's a bunch of thresholds connected in a complex way, running on von neumann machine and so on. How is consciousness causing behavior ? > John K Clark > > > > -- > 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 https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
