On 10/18/2018 6:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 16 Oct 2018, at 19:28, John Clark <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 10:05 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> you know for a fact you're not conscious all the time, you
know you're not conscious when you're sleeping or under
anesthesia or before you were born and, although you don't
know for certain, you probably suspect you won't be conscious
after you're dead. And you may have also noticed a pattern
here, you seem to only be conscious when you have the ability
to behave intelligently.
> /"Having the ability to behave intelligently" is not something
I can know. /
I don't think very intelligently when I'm sleeping and I've known
that for as far back as I can remember. Are you any different?
How can you judge that you are thinking more intelligently when you
are awake?
Also, can you be sure that you are awake?
Can anyone judge its own intelligence?
The same way they judge anyone's intelligence, by their behavior. Don't
you give tests to your students? Do you never take tests?
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 [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.
