Am Di, 15. Dez 2020, um 21:32, schrieb Lawrence Crowell:
> I think with cyber-neural interlinks where we will have thoughts and 
> sensations communicated we will come maybe to some understanding. The barrier 
> between subjectivity and objectivity will be at least partially penetrated.

You can have a subjective experience of such a thing, but how can you really 
ever abandon subjective experience itself?

Telmo

> LC
> On Monday, December 14, 2020 at 8:22:57 PM UTC-6 Brent wrote:
>>  I agree.  I'm an advocate of the engineering solution to the "hard problem 
>> of consciousness".  When we can build AI's that act intelligently and 
>> explain their conscious thoughts and we can adjust them so that they are 
>> more or less humorous or optimistic v. pessimstic or intuitive v. 
>> contemplative, etc...then we will have understood as much as there is to 
>> understand about consciousness.
>> 
>> Brent
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/14/2020 4:46 PM, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
>>> I wince when people bring consciousness into scientific discussions. It is 
>>> not entirely clear how consciousness can ever be a fully scientific 
>>> subject. Maybe within the soft problem limits it can be somewhat 
>>> scientific. The qualia or hard problem I think is outside of science. 
>>> 
>>> LC
>>> 
>>> On Monday, December 14, 2020 at 7:36:08 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020  'Brent Meeker' via Everything List 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>> * >> On 12/13/2020 9:11 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:*
>>>>> * *
>>>>>> *>> We cannot start from consciousness,*
>>>> 
>>>> I agree because the scientific method is of no use for consciousness. So 
>>>> instead start with Intelligent behavior, aka The Turing Test.  
>>>>  
>>>>> *> and we cannot start with matter, which are the notion that we have to 
>>>>> explain from numbers,*
>>>> 
>>>> That is an unwarranted assumption on your part. You don't need numbers to 
>>>> explain matter, you need matter to explain numbers.
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> > *Why can't you start from consciousness.  It's more immediately known 
>>>>> > than numbers. *
>>>> 
>>>> Why can't you start from intelligent behavior. It's more immediately known 
>>>> than either. It takes intelligence to conclude "I think therefore I am".
>>>> 
>>>> John K Clark
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