Hi Marsha, On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 11:04 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote:
> > John, > > How do you know? What is your evidence? How can you be sure that > consciousness is nothing other than language? > > > Well, as all these things boil down to how you define them, I suppose it all depends on how you define consciousness, and how you define language. So since I'm obviously defining language as consciousness, then I don't need evidence so much as more explanation of what I mean by language. As I define it, language is codified information, and, as per my recent exchange with Adrie and his take on information, all of reality is information, consciousness is real, therefore, consciousness is information. As far as evidence goes, all of my experience is evidence that consciousness is language. The question I'd ask you is what evidence do you have of any consciousness that is not language? The line between consciousness and non-consciousness in MoQ terms, I'd put firmly in the divide between inorganic and biological. That is, dna has a language, which allows for a rudimentary processing of input from the environment into choices made in responding to that environment. Thus, when an amoeba shirks acid, it's "saying" in effect, "I don't like acid". An amoeba's language represents its consciousness of its environment. > Marsha > > > p.s. I didn't mean the word 'only' in a pejorative way, but in a 'nothing > other > than way'. > > "nothing other than" is kinda pejorative, but not in a mean-spirited way but a logically limiting way. John 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
