It may just be a bit like saying because an airplane can fly that it is equivalent to a bird.
LC On Saturday, March 31, 2018 at 6:52:43 PM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 6:29 PM, Lawrence Crowell < > goldenfield...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > >> > Take LSD or psilocybin mushrooms and what enters the brain are >> chemical compounds that interact with neural ligand gates. The effect is a >> change in the perception of consciousness. >> > > LSD is not magical, it is a physical substance that changes the chemistry > of the brain which in turn changes the way information in the brain is > process which changes observed intelligent behavior. So the type of > intelligence displayed depends on how something physical, like matter, is > arranged. As for consciousness LSD may effect that too but I don't know > that for a fact because I've never taken LSD, although I have heard people > make noises with their mouth that sound like "it changed my consciousness". > > > >> *>The idea one could set up a computer neural network, upload some data >> file from a brain scan and that this would be a completely conscious person >> is frankly absurd. * > > > If a > computer being conscious is absurd why isn't 3 pounds of grey goo being > conscious also absurd? Is there some new law of physics I haven't head of > that only that only squishy things can be conscious? > > 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 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.
