On Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 6:17:11 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 1/29/2020 11:55 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > Now the human brain IP-power is like 10^whatever times that of a rock. > > > Is it? A rock has a lot of atoms that can be a lot of states, like 1e30. > Maybe it has to do with connections and signals and sensors and > environment. Not IIT. > > Also, a human brain has more IP-power than that of a chimp - its language > ability shows that. > > > And your computer has more arithmetical ability than you do. > > Brent > > > If a rock has more information processing power than a brain, and if consciousness is information processing (a lot of it) then why isn't a rock conscious?
But a rock isn't conscious! @philipthrift -- 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/ffb56127-0e3f-4d00-b512-d7adcf40c9bc%40googlegroups.com.
