Re: R/ASSA query
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: 2010/1/15 Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com: Or why not suppose you are your body (including your genes). Then evolution would be able to have had the imputed effect on you that you suppose it does. The actual effect of any adaptive behaviour must be through the genes, but evolution could not work directly on a belief about genes. Our psychology may act against our genes if we are taken out of the environment in which we evolved; for example the number of children people choose to have in the modern world is inversely proportional to the resources they control. I guess I should be more explicit. I found your post bemusingly inconsistent. You theorized that the continuity of your experience was an illusion produced by evolution and you really exist as a sequence of discrete OMs. But evolution is a process that acts on genes and in order to have any effect on the real you requires continuity, not only of your body moment-by-moment and day-by-day but of your genes over millenia. So it strikes me as very strange to invoke it as creating an *illusion* of continuity. Sort of like the Sun producing an illusion of daylight. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
Re: Everything List Survey
Stathis Papaioannou skrev: 2010/1/14 Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com: Interesting so far: - people are about evenly divided on the question of whether computers can be conscious - no-one really knows what to make of OM's - more people believe cats are conscious than dogs Oh, and one person does not believe that they are conscious! Come on, who's the zombie? It's me. (The question on whether computers can be conscious, should have three alternatives: 1) Both computers and humans can be conscious. 2) Humans, but not computers can be conscious. 3) Neither humans nor computers can be conscious. (The alternative: Computers, but not humans can be conscious, is not needed...)) -- Torgny Tholerus -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
