On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> You walk into a bakery and see a cake and you assume the baker made >> the cake. Do you also assume the baker made the flower in the cake, and >> the carbon in the flower, and the protons in the carbon, and the quarks in >> the protons? > > > *No, because the cake is an improbable thing, while protons are probable > things. I don't know how probable consciousness is. * But I do know that the bakers brain is far more improbable than a cake , and mass and an electromagnetic field and temperature are even more probable than protons, so why do you demand Evolution produce mass and temperature and electromagnetic fields but you don't demand the baker produce protons? *> I don't know how probable consciousness is. * But I can make a educated guess because I know that most things don't behave intelagently and I also know that when I become less conscious I also become less intelligent. *> Humans are terribly complex * Yes, and evolution didn't bother to put in all that complexity because its a nice guy and figured we'd like consciousness, it did it because intelligent behavior has survival value. *> and it might be that consciousness arises from terribly complex things, > or from certain types of terribly complex things. But I don't really know > and neither do you.* I don't really know that human cadavers are not conscious, but they sure don't behave intelligently so my hunch is they are not. W hat is your hunch? 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.
