On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 2:39 PM Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Forget BF Skinner, this is more general than consciousness or behavior. >> If you want to explain Y at the most fundamental level from first >> principles you can't start with "X produces Y'' and then use X as part of >> your explanation of Y. >> > > *> OK, I want to explain consciousness from first principles, so Y = > consciousness. What is X? * > Something that shows up on a brain scan machine according to you. *> I'm interested in a theory of consciousness that can tell me, among > other things, how it is that we have conscious experiences when we dream. > Don't you wonder about that?* > I am far more interested in understanding the mental activity of a person when he's awake then when he's asleep. *> I'm very curious about how intelligence works too. * > Glad to hear it, but there's 10 times or 20 times more verbiage about consciousness than intelligence on this list. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> . > >> . >> >> . >> >> >> -- 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/CAJPayv3GiVYXroetrK-EU1ai2Pg6nv8P%2B1RBrmKZ0yQGaX%2BfaA%40mail.gmail.com.
