On 9/28/10 3:45 AM, "MarshaV" <[email protected]> wrote: > Everybody in the world may know this but moi, but I find it terribly exciting: > > > "To argue that conscious experience goes beyond ordinary knowing, we are > told the story of Mary, a scientist of the future who knows all there is to > know abut the perception of color. But she has never been outside a room > where everything is black or white. One day she is shown something red. For > the first time, Mary _experiences_ red. Her experience of red is something > _beyond_ her complete knowledge of red. Or is it? You can no doubt generate > for yourself the pro and con arguments that the Mary story provokes."
Here's a con from a link page by Chalmers who is on the pro side. http://http-server.carleton.ca/~abrook/papers/2005-ConscNsc-1CogBrain.pdf > >>>>>> (Rosenblum & Kuttner,'Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness', >>>>>> p.180,2006) > Somehow this represents the difference between 'probabilities' and > 'possibilities,' but don't ask me to explain. > And this is Chalmers link page with a wealth of papers on consciousness. http://consc.net/mindpapers/1.2g Dave 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/md/archives.html
