Brent and Craig:
Interesting back-and-forth on conventional ignorance basis.
We (in physics etc.) identified 'atoms' by mostly mathematical
treatment of poorly (if at all) understood phenomenal information (?)
limited to the capability pf the 'then' human mind.
Now 'we' invented zombies, as a mental exercise of a hype not fitting
the image we came up with and argue about some 'consciousness' marvel,
extended into those 'atoms' we invented. Good game.
Brent asked finally an impatient question:
So you think you'll be just as conscious if your atoms are rearranged? LOL
what Craig never formulated in such strictness.
IMO the (hypothetical) physical body AND the so far unknown (both
spiritual(?) and physical(?) - ) mentality - in one complex - provide
the 'function' human we SPEAK about. So far we don't know better.
Change the complexity of them and the functional complex ceased to
exist (like: in death)
JM.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 8, 2:10 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
That doesn't follow. It assmes that zombieness is an attribute of
components rather than
of their functional organization. There can obviously be zombie
(unconscious) components
(e.g. quarks and electrons) which when properly assembled produce conscious
beings.
I can just as easily say that all components must have some degree of
consciousness themselves since we are made of the same kinds of atoms
as all things are. Assembly only changes the relative presentation of
some group of atoms to another group. It has no power to summon
awareness from the void. To say that unconsciousness is obvious is an
argument from naive realism. We can't see consciousness in a human
body, why should we expect to see it in an atom's body?
Craig
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