Quoting Hamilton Priday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Platt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Which begs the question, "How does mind emerge from the mindless?" > > Science is still struggling with the answer wouldn't you agree?
Materialists claim, of course, that mind "emerges" from the brain's neural "complexity." But, as you point out, they are still struggling to find a definitive explanation: [Ham] > If the objectivists "struggle with this answer", it is most likely the > result of an internal conflict over whether their functional description of > mental processes accurately represents what we mean by "conscious > awareness." A computer can process information and spit out analyses. A > seismometer can "sense" movements in the earth's crust and plot their > amplitude in Richter units. Knowledge can be recorded on paper or tape and > stored as a body of "intelligence". A stretched elastic band has a "memory" > that returns it to its initial length. But none of these devices has > proprietary awareness of what it detects, records, or analyzes. It does not > KNOW that it senses. Which is why conscious awareness cannot be reduced to > digits, signals, and patterns. Exactly. And that is the nub of the problem which, despite efforts by many, as foiled efforts to come up with a universally accepted theory of consciousness. As I said, the struggle to find (thanks for the correction) an answer goes on. ------------------------------------------------- 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/
