I will dig up something later. I don't know if it suffices for you, but suspect whatever I supply it will be peer-review, but never good enough for you. :-D
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Mar 15, 2023 4:15 pm Subject: Re: The connectome and uploading On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 3:31 PM spudboy100 via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote: > Just as Neuro-guys explan human consciousness Nonsense, the Neuro-guys are able to do no such thing and I am quite certain the electronics guys won't be able to explain consciousness either, other than by proposing the axiom that it's a brute fact that consciousness is the way data feels when it is being processed intelligently. And it is now much more obvious than it was even 2 months ago that the electronics guys CAN explain intelligence. > If we don't know what, we will soon. Nope > UNLESS you hold that consciousness is a Mystery? The trouble is even if you find out that X causes consciousness the next obvious question is what causes X. There are only 2 possibilities, an iterative chain of "what" or "how" or "why" questions either goes on forever, like a Matryoshka doll or an onion with an infinite number of layers, or it ends with a brute fact, an event without a cause. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolisn6z -- 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/CAJPayv35meu2rVXSv7GBDp8yOdWEnSPAQ5QEZRa7pR0C10e%2BBg%40mail.gmail.com. -- 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/391691593.680265.1678998029051%40mail.yahoo.com.
