On 7/5/2021 6:03 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 5:33 AM Tomas Pales <[email protected]
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/> I think consciousness is the brain,/
I disagree. "Brain" is a noun, "consciousness" is not, that's why you
can't measure consciousness by the pound or by the cubic inch.
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,
I'm not sure whether that conclusion is right or wrong, but it doesn't
follow from the premise. Darwinian evolution is limited in that it must
only go on from where it is, it can't back up and start over. So at
best you can say that consciousness must be a byproduct of intelligence
as implemented in humans/mammals. An octopus or a computer */might/* be
intelligent while not conscious, at least not conscious in a human-like
"inner narrative" way.
Brent
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.
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