On 5/5/2019 2:06 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I of course think that "consciousness arises from the function of
matter in some configurations" (the conscious brain is nothing but the
cells and chemicals operating inside the skull), but it's doing more
than/information processing/. It's doing *experience processing*.
People can deliberate until the cows come home why information
processing is sufficient or is not sufficient. If one is already an
"information processing is sufficient for consciousness" fan, then
nothing will probably change their belief in that.
The brain is an experience processing engine. Experience cannot be
reduced to information.
The question is whether it can be reduced to a physical process and if
so what processes produce experience? Does information processing that
produces intelligence also produce experience? If not, there can be
philosophical zombies.
Brent
That's the essence of panpsychism.
@philipthrift
On Sunday, May 5, 2019 at 3:31:06 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
But your "protopsychical parts" seem to be nothing more than the
potential to function in something conscious; which is the same as
the physicalist theory that consciousness arises from the function
of matter in some configurations. Except physicalism is more
explicit; it distinguishes information processing, evidenced by
intelligent behavior, as instantiating consciousness.
Brent
On 5/5/2019 1:08 PM, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote:
On Sunday, May 5, 2019 at 2:45:21 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
my cells, and "my" bacteria, are conscious at the level of
biochemical information processing. But that's not part of
my inner narrative consciousness.
Brent
As I wrote previously:
cells have some level of *elementary protoconsciousness*. When
combined into certain configurations (like a human brain), these
*protopsychical parts* are fused into something (fully) conscious.
@philipthrift
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