Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Mar 2015, at 18:14, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 , Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: True, and most people have never even heard of the Turing Test, but every human being who has ever lived has implicitly assumed that if something behaves intelligently then it

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Mar 2015, at 18:06, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:44 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/13/2015 12:19 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:25 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/12/2015 1:21 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Not me.

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Mar 2015, at 19:00, meekerdb wrote: On 3/13/2015 10:26 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: or under anesthesia I'm not conscious You can't prove that. That's an assumption. That's logic chopping. There's a big gap between proven and assumed. In fact all of science works in that gap. It's

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Mar 2015, at 20:59, John Mikes wrote: LizR: Consciousness, in my vocabulary sounds like: Response to Relations, not a mental awarness in thinking/living creatures. Response to relation looks like Behaviorism, that is pure 3p. Consciousness usually denote the first person awareness.

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:26 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Humans apply pressure on the floor when standing up, so Evolution is responsible for mass and gravity? No, but Evolution is responsible for the fact

Re: The world's most environmentally friendly car

2015-03-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:19 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Are you proposing we laugh our way through the greatest extinction event since the dinosaurs bought it some sixty million years ago…. As we degrade and destroy this planet’s

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Mar 2015, at 17:57, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 13 Mar 2015, at 08:19, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:25 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/12/2015 1:21 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote:

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Mar 2015, at 19:21, meekerdb wrote: On 3/13/2015 10:06 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:44 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/13/2015 12:19 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:25 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/12/2015

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:00 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/13/2015 10:26 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: or under anesthesia I'm not conscious You can't prove that. That's an assumption. That's logic chopping. There's a big gap between proven and assumed. In fact all of

Slimy digits?

2015-03-15 Thread meekerdb
Can amoeba computers be far behind? http://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/LCCOMP/Anuncios/Entries/2015/7/20_ECAL_2015__Slime_Mould_Computers.html Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread meekerdb
On 3/15/2015 10:49 AM, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com mailto:te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Organisms apply pressure on surfaces, even if they are dead. This is just a property of chunks of solid matter. Evolution did not create this

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread John Mikes
Bruno wrote: *Response to relation looks like Behaviorism, that is pure 3p. * *Consciousness usually denote the first person awareness. * Where does your line#1 imply your line#2? That darn Behaviorism (I don't argue with your usage of words) may be a 'liveless' 3p behavior as well. It may

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Organisms apply pressure on surfaces, even if they are dead. This is just a property of chunks of solid matter. Evolution did not create this behaviour I disagree. Evolution didn't select for that behavior but it did cause it,

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread meekerdb
On 3/15/2015 7:18 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: That's because I don't know what the question is. The question is simple: why can't organisms generated by evolutionary processes possess properties that are not the result of evolutionary pressure? Because your argument hinges on assuming that

Re: The Weakness of Panpsychism?

2015-03-15 Thread meekerdb
On 3/15/2015 10:03 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: We cannot define the notion of finite number This will make it very difficult to interpret the output of your computer. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from

Re: The Weakness of Panpsychism?

2015-03-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
Oops, just discover this unread post. Sorry. On 22 Jan 2015, at 17:14, David Nyman wrote: On 22 January 2015 at 08:22, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Because with sufficiently big infinity in both mind and matter, you can a priori singularize the experience and the body in a way

Re: The world's most environmentally friendly car

2015-03-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Mar 2015, at 19:34, John Clark wrote: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXEddCLW3SM I ordered it. Quick, before they make it illegal. I share on my FB page, hoping to interest my automobile owner friends ;) Bruno -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Galen Strawson: Consciousness myth

2015-03-15 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1523413.ece An interesting paper that reviews the history on consciousness in philosophy in order to display that Twenty years ago, however, an instant myth was born: a myth about a dramatic resurgence of interest in the topic of consciousness in

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread meekerdb
On 3/15/2015 7:10 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:00 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/13/2015 10:26 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: or under anesthesia I'm not conscious You can't prove that. That's an assumption.

Re: The world's most environmentally friendly car

2015-03-15 Thread LizR
Well of course laughing AT people you dislike is a classic bullying technique. And then you say oh come on it was only a joke! Yet bullies never make jokes about themselves, because they are often humourless sociopaths. Dunno if this is on topic but I thought I'd mention it anyway, just in case.

Re: The world's most environmentally friendly car

2015-03-15 Thread LizR
But is it as environmentally friendly as the Grass Car? On 14 March 2015 at 07:34, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXEddCLW3SM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote consciousness may be an necessary spandrel of brain architecture, but NOT of intelligence in general. The same drugs that make me behave stupidly also makes me feel less conscious, and that fact is incompatible with the above idea.

Re: The world's most environmentally friendly car

2015-03-15 Thread meekerdb
In California now it's considered environmentally unfriendly to wash your car or to water your lawn. So TEZA 1 would be doubly unfriendly. Brent On 3/15/2015 4:35 PM, LizR wrote: But is it as environmentally friendly as the Grass Car? -- You received this message because you are

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread LizR
On 15 March 2015 at 08:59, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: LizR: Consciousness, in my vocabulary sounds like: Response to Relations, not a mental awarness in thinking/living creatures. Your views may be correct, if you accept conclusions drawn in the name of the present science upon the

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread LizR
On 16 March 2015 at 06:49, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Organisms apply pressure on surfaces, even if they are dead. This is just a property of chunks of solid matter. Evolution did not create this behaviour I

Re: The Weakness of Panpsychism?

2015-03-15 Thread LizR
Did you actually mean that Bruno or should it be infinite - I thought you defined the notion. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread meekerdb
On 3/15/2015 7:57 PM, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: You assume that intelligence only comes from brains. Only a fool would not assume that and I am not a fool. It is true that drugs that make brains less

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread LizR
On 14 March 2015 at 05:44, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/13/2015 12:19 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:25 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/12/2015 1:21 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Not me. I'm the opposite, I was always confused by the idea

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread meekerdb
On 3/15/2015 6:15 PM, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote consciousness may be an necessary spandrel of brain architecture, but NOT of intelligence in general. The same drugs that make me behave stupidly also makes

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: You assume that intelligence only comes from brains. Only a fool would not assume that and I am not a fool. It is true that drugs that make brains less intelligent make them less conscious. But it might not be true of, for

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-15 Thread LizR
On 14 March 2015 at 07:21, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/13/2015 10:06 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:44 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/13/2015 12:19 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:25 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net