> NONSENSE! Evolution produced me. I know with 100% certainty that I am > conscious. I very strongly suspect billions of other things are conscious > too. I know for a fact Evolution can detect intelligent behavior but it > can’t detect consciousness and yet I am consciousness. Therefor > consciousness MUST be a byproduct intelligence. Evolution says as much about > consciousness as there is to say, it is the best purely logical argument > against solipsism, in fact it is the only one, all the others are just > variations of “my initiation says its untrue” or “solipsism is too strange > to be true”.
This assumes that if evolution produced X, then any property of X is also a product of evolution. It is trivially not the case. For example, you have mass and an electromagnetic field and a temperature, and yet neither mass nor electromagnetism nor temperature are products of evolution. Telmo. -- 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.
