On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 12:04 AM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> *> The evolutionary argument is a good one for brains like humans and > other animals. But it may be that consciousness is only entailed by > intelligence that is realized by neural nets with limited memory or some > other constraints that are accidents of the evolution of intelligence on > Earth.* So limited memory is a requirement for consciousness and other constraints may be needed too, so there is a inverse relationship, the smarter you are the less conscious you become. Well maybe, I can't prove the idea is wrong with mathematical rigor but if its true then its odd that when I get very sleepy I become less conscious and if you were observing me at the time you'd say my IQ was about 50 points lower than it was when I was not sleepy. > *> Intelligence realized in some other way might not be conscious* You can play the maybe game for eternity. Maybe my fellow human beings are intelligent in some other way than I am intelligent and are therefore not conscious. Actually in this case there is no maybe about it, you ARE intelligent in some way different from me, otherwise you'd be me and I'd be you. > *> or might be conscious in different way that we couldn't recognize as > such.* Maybe. We don't recognize trees and rocks and human cadavers as being conscious because they don't behave intelligently, but maybe they are. Maybe, but I doubt 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.
