Hi Krimel --
[Ham, in reference to Platt's NYTimes article]:
It takes more than a brain and neural synapses to
create conscious awareness. Consciousness is the
agent of Value, not an electro-mechanical device
that can calculate and indicate decisions. The
conscious self is what realizes Value in terms of its
wants and desires.
[Krimel responds]:
You are right, it takes more than the brain and neural
synapses to create conscious awareness. You have to
have an environment for the brain to interact with and
a history of interaction. If you take those away, what is
left?
Just absolute sensibility, undifferentiated.
Conscious history is recorded in memory, whether synaptically or embedded in
electronic chips. But conscious awareness is not simply recorded data.
Being-aware presumes an organic locus of sensibility -- the individuated
self. Ultimate (i.e., metaphysical) reality has the power of locus (negated
difference), but neither this potentiality nor "selfness" is separable from
its absolute sensibility.
If your comment was intended as bait for an argument, I'll bite.
Regards,
Ham
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