Re: Support for Panexperientialism

2012-02-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 26, 12:22 am, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: On Feb 24, 11:13 pm, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: Of course. They are the particular sense of epistemology which 'seems like' the opposite of 'seems like'. Phenomena are reduced to their wireframe invariance - a skeleton

Re: Support for Panexperientialism

2012-02-25 Thread 1Z
On Feb 24, 11:13 pm, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: Of course. They are the particular sense of epistemology which 'seems like' the opposite of 'seems like'. Phenomena are reduced to their wireframe invariance - a skeleton which seems as if it 'simply is' because it represents

Re: Support for Panexperientialism

2012-02-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 24, 7:52 am, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: He isn't saying it's special, he is asking why should we think that consciousness arises as some exceptional phenomenon in the universe. Every phenomenon is exceptional. Not in the sense that they are disconnected from all other

Re: Support for Panexperientialism

2012-02-23 Thread 1Z
On Feb 22, 1:10 pm, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: Could a rock have consciousness? Good answer from someone on Quora:http://www.quora.com/Could-a-rock-have-consciousness    Yes, obviously.     Why obviously?     Well, first of all, where is the “disconnect” and what is it

Re: Support for Panexperientialism

2012-02-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 23, 9:34 am, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote:     Well, first of all, where is the “disconnect” and what is it made of? Specifically, the disconnect that must occur if some parts of reality are “conscious” while others aren’t. DIsconnects exist. Some things are magnetic and others

Re: Support for Panexperientialism

2012-02-23 Thread 1Z
On Feb 23, 3:50 pm, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 23, 9:34 am, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote:     Well, first of all, where is the “disconnect” and what is it made of? Specifically, the disconnect that must occur if some parts of reality are “conscious” while

Re: Support for Panexperientialism

2012-02-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 23, 2:45 pm, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote:     Well, first of all, where is the “disconnect” and what is it made of? Specifically, the disconnect that must occur if some parts of reality are “conscious” while others aren’t. DIsconnects exist. Some things are magnetic and

Re: Support for Panexperientialism

2012-02-23 Thread 1Z
On Feb 23, 8:27 pm, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 23, 2:45 pm, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote:     Well, first of all, where is the “disconnect” and what is it made of? Specifically, the disconnect that must occur if some parts of reality are

Re: Support for Panexperientialism

2012-02-23 Thread John Mikes
Dear Craig, my first step was to join Quora but it asked for my password what I denied to disclose to Facebook and other 'social' networks as well (staying private). In the quoted excerpt were wise thoughts (time-scale etc.) but it did not address my main point: whatever we THINK about that

Re: Support for Panexperientialism

2012-02-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Feb 23, 4:00 pm, 1Z peterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: He isn't saying it's special, he is asking why should we think that consciousness arises as some exceptional phenomenon in the universe. Every phenomenon is exceptional. Not in the sense that they are disconnected from all other