On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Empirical evidence requires observation.
Yes. > > > How do you observe > > consciousness? I can only observe my own consciousness I can't observe your's, if I could then I wouldn't be me I'd be you. But I can observe intelligent behavior and that is as close as I'm going to get. Ever. So I'll just have to be content with that. > > > I bet other people are conscious because they look > > similar to me, and I know I am. Other people are s imilar to me but they are not identical, and as far as consciousness is concerned the difference could important. A fresh cadaver is similar to a sleeping person but is not identical. Nevertheless I agree with you, I think it's a pretty good bet that some people other than me are conscious, but I'll never know for sure. > > Consciousness? You are just sweeping the hard problem under the rug. > It's not being swept under the rug, it's just that there is nothing new to say about it. > > 1. Why we are not just Zombies, We? I know for certain I'm not a zombie, but maybe you are. > > > 2. How consciousness emerges from the known laws of physics. Charles Darwin and Alan Turing explained how intelligence could emerge from the known laws of physics. You're interested in consciousness but if the chain of "how does that work?" questions is not infinite but eventually terminates then after saying consciousness is the way data feels like when it is being processed there is simply nothing more to be said about it. 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.
