On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 4:25 PM 'Brent Meeker' < [email protected]> wrote:
*> **Haven't you ever awoken from surgery? AG * > > *>> Yes, and I think I was just the same as before and so does everyone > else. But maybe I am fundamentally different. How would I know?* > > >>> You'd ask people who knew you well. > And if you did that you would hear them make noises with their mouth, but whatever consciousness is it certainly isn't those mouth noises. If your lucky you may be able to detect a pattern in those noises that would indicate intelligence, but you would have to make an additional assumption to conclude that also indicated consciousness, namely that consciousness is an inevitable byproduct of intelligence. In the real world everybody makes that assumption a thousand times a day because the alternative is solipsism. 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2FhWqjYLbWSHgOQjndw9G4-vPniD08sHq45z8Afknqyg%40mail.gmail.com.
