On 15 July 2017 at 05:19, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 7/14/2017 7:22 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >> I think Brent has commented that consciousness needs a world to be >> conscious of -- that doesn't, of itself, constrain that world in any way. >> Even more so if the consciousness is a product of evolution in that world. >> Evolution cannot produce anything that contradicts the laws of physics. >> > > One way to see that consciousness and physics are not tightly constrained > is to note that our consciousness seems adapted to living on a flat Earth > in which Newtonian mechanics prevails. The "laws of physics", as we've > presently congratulated ourselves on inventing, are so far from intuitive > that there are endless arguments over how to interpret them.
You're bending the terminology away from the original argument. The question isn't whether our naive beliefs about the nature of the world are adapted precisely to its fundamental characteristics. Of course they aren't - that's why scientific enquiry exists as a corrective. The question is rather whether the fundamental nature of the physical world we observe with the aid of scientific rigour is constrained to produce the conditions for its own observation. This is very far from being a conjecture dreamed up by yours truly, as you are of course aware. David > > 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 [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.
