Quoting David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Platt> To assume germs and electrons are not conscious offers nothing in the > way of > > explanatory power either. > > DM: Yes, which is not to say that having no brain or nervous > system won't make a big difference, yet what remains > without these is unknown. and of course how we > try to approach these problems are always derived > from analogies to our own experience. Our idea of > causality and forceis hard to divorce from our experience > of what a 'push' feels like.
Yes. But it makes sense that consciousness is universal rather than it emerged out of nowhere, like "oops," suddenly there it was. Platt ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
