On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 9:44 AM Tomas Pales <[email protected]> wrote:
>> "Brain" is a noun, "consciousness" is not, that's why you can't measure >> consciousness by the pound or by the cubic inch. >> > > *> In English language it is used as a noun. Check out a dictionary:* > > *consciousness* noun <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noun> > I know, that's what my fourth grade teacher told me too, but I long-ago realized that neither she nor the lexicographers who wrote that big thick book are the fonts of all wisdom. > >> Intelligence is what a brain does not what a brain is, and because >> Darwinian Evolution is almost certainly correct, consciousness must be an >> inevitable byproduct of intelligence, therefore "consciousness" is not a >> noun, it's a word that describes what a noun (in this case the brain) does, >> in other words consciousness is an adjective. >> > > *> You mean a verb then, no? * > I think adjective fits the bill a little better, I think Tomas Pales is the way atoms behave when they are arranged in a Tomaspalesian way. > *consciousness is a spatiotemporal object.* > I disagree, I think asking where my consciousness is located would be like asking where the number 11 or the color yellow or "fast" is located. If my brain is in Paris and I'm looking at a TV football game from Detroit and I'm listening to a friend in Australia on my telephone and I'm thinking about The Great Wall of China would it make sense to say my consciousness is really located inside a box made of bone mounted on my shoulders when I have no conscious experience of being in a bone box on my shoulders? I don't think so. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> vxq0 > > -- 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/CAJPayv1QfN_EVXVRWNGB4yx4-_SbP-S-HebZO-%3D%2BT3Wjw9uFvQ%40mail.gmail.com.
