On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > On 12/21/2017 3:34 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: >>> >>> So we are told. But what if someone could look at a recorded MRI of you >>> brain and tell you what you were thinking? >> >> Why do you need the MRI? You can look at the text that I write and >> know what I'm thinking. We've been doing that all along. >> The text I write comes from my fingers hitting the keyboard, and the >> fingers move in a certain pattern because the muscles are activated by >> nerves that are connected to my brain and completely correlated to my >> neural activity. What does the MRI add beyond precision? How does this >> help solve the mystery that I am conscious, instead of a zombie? > > > Well, you can't lie to the MRI. But otherwise I agree. Except that I then > ask, "What mystery?" If having thoughts, however expressed or detected, is > consciousness then problem solved...or more accurately pushed back to why do > we believe a philosophical zombie is impossible.
Alright, I think we can agree on some important things. I would say that we are both inclined to believe that: "Certain configuration of matter are correlated with certain states of consciousness, and it must be so." Yes? The mystery here is: why must it be so? It is a perfectly legitimate scientific question, I would say. Telmo. > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
