Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-06-05 Thread John Mikes
Brent wrote (I wish I knew TO whom): Why not? It acts on the temperature. Acts? remember my proposed definition for Ccness: Response to relations (like: temperature). We are deeply in a semantic fit. I don't think you wanted to argue with me - just clarifying. JM On Mon, May 27, 2013 at

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-06-05 Thread meekerdb
On 6/5/2013 3:13 PM, John Mikes wrote: Brent wrote (I wish I knew TO whom): Why not? It acts on the temperature. Acts? remember my proposed definition for Ccness: Response to relations (like: temperature). We are deeply in a semantic fit. I don't think you wanted to argue with me - just

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-06-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 31 May 2013, at 19:20, meekerdb wrote: On 5/31/2013 8:46 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 30 May 2013, at 21:04, meekerdb wrote: On 5/30/2013 2:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 May 2013, at 20:12, meekerdb wrote: On 5/29/2013 12:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I don't see the analogy. I

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-31 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 May 2013, at 21:04, meekerdb wrote: On 5/30/2013 2:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 May 2013, at 20:12, meekerdb wrote: On 5/29/2013 12:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I don't see the analogy. I don't think consciousness can be negative, or even that it can be measured by one

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-31 Thread meekerdb
On 5/31/2013 8:46 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 30 May 2013, at 21:04, meekerdb wrote: On 5/30/2013 2:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 May 2013, at 20:12, meekerdb wrote: On 5/29/2013 12:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I don't see the analogy. I don't think consciousness can be negative, or

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 May 2013, at 20:12, meekerdb wrote: On 5/29/2013 12:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I don't see the analogy. I don't think consciousness can be negative, or even that it can be measured by one dimension. All- or-nothing would be a function that is either 1 or 0. The point is more

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-30 Thread meekerdb
On 5/30/2013 2:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 May 2013, at 20:12, meekerdb wrote: On 5/29/2013 12:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I don't see the analogy. I don't think consciousness can be negative, or even that it can be measured by one dimension. All-or-nothing would be a function that

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 May 2013, at 19:23, meekerdb wrote: On 5/28/2013 9:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 May 2013, at 01:53, meekerdb wrote: On 5/27/2013 2:18 PM, John Mikes wrote: Bruno: do you indeed exclude the other animals from being selfconcious? or - having a logic on their own level? Or any

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 May 2013, at 00:10, John Mikes wrote: Evgenyi, you write very 'deep' and 'smart things. One bothers me: ..the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. first the anthropocentric sound (neurological?) and then the unidentified term of Ccness. In this same post (cf Russell

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 May 2013, at 06:59, Kim Jones wrote: On 29/05/2013, at 2:04 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You don't need language to feel the hotness of a fire. Bruno You don't need language to feel the effect of music. Good point. Language is the greatest barrier to

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 May 2013, at 08:33, meekerdb wrote: On 5/28/2013 11:13 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 May 2013, at 19:23, meekerdb wrote: On 5/28/2013 9:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 May 2013, at 01:53, meekerdb wrote: On 5/27/2013 2:18 PM, John Mikes wrote: Bruno: do you indeed exclude the

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-29 Thread John Mikes
Brent: after lots of back-and-forth you wrote: *...I don't see the analogy. I don't think consciousness can be negative, or even that it can be measured by one dimension. All-or-nothing would be a function that is either 1 or 0. If you can be conscious of red and green, then I'd say you are

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-29 Thread meekerdb
On 5/29/2013 12:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 May 2013, at 08:33, meekerdb wrote: On 5/28/2013 11:13 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 May 2013, at 19:23, meekerdb wrote: On 5/28/2013 9:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 May 2013, at 01:53, meekerdb wrote: On 5/27/2013 2:18 PM, John

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 May 2013, at 23:18, John Mikes wrote: Bruno: do you indeed exclude the other animals from being selfconcious? ? No, not at all. My current feeling (for what is worth) is that consciousness begins with the bacteria, plants and all animals. And self-consciousness arise already with

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-28 Thread meekerdb
On 5/28/2013 9:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 May 2013, at 01:53, meekerdb wrote: On 5/27/2013 2:18 PM, John Mikes wrote: Bruno: do you indeed exclude the other animals from being selfconcious? or - having a logic on their own level? Or any other trait we assign (identify?) for humans -

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-28 Thread John Mikes
Evgenyi, you write very 'deep' and 'smart things. One bothers me: *..the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. * first the anthropocentric sound (neurological?) and then the unidentified term of Ccness. In this same post (cf Russell and Brent) different contents are proposed,

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-28 Thread John Mikes
Brent: *...I don't think consciousness is an all-or-nothing property..* In that unnerving struggle of 2 decades to 'generalize' (some of) those zillion positions the diverse authors exuded about Ccness (to fit THEIR own theories - whatever they thought it was) I concluded that what most people

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-28 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 27 May 2013, at 23:18, John Mikes wrote: Bruno: do you indeed exclude the other animals from being selfconcious? ? No, not at all. My current feeling (for what is worth) is that consciousness begins with the

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-28 Thread Kim Jones
On 29/05/2013, at 2:04 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You don't need language to feel the hotness of a fire. Bruno You don't need language to feel the effect of music. Kim Jones Language is the greatest barrier to communication that still exists - Edward de Bono

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 May 2013, at 01:12, Russell Standish wrote: On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 05:05:28PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 26 May 2013, at 13:29, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-27 Thread John Mikes
Bruno: do you indeed exclude the other animals from being selfconcious? or - having a logic on their own level? Or any other trait we assign (identify?) for humans - in our terms? A question about plants (rather: about being conscious): you may feel free to define 'being conscious' in human

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-27 Thread meekerdb
On 5/27/2013 2:18 PM, John Mikes wrote: Bruno: do you indeed exclude the other animals from being selfconcious? or - having a logic on their own level? Or any other trait we assign (identify?) for humans - in our terms? A question about plants (rather: about being conscious): you may feel

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-27 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 04:53:56PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: I don't think consciousness is an all-or-nothing property. You have to ask Consciousness of what? There's consciousness of surroundings: sound, photons, temperature, chemical concentrations There's consciousness of internal

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-27 Thread meekerdb
On 5/27/2013 5:08 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 04:53:56PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: I don't think consciousness is an all-or-nothing property. You have to ask Consciousness of what? There's consciousness of surroundings: sound, photons, temperature, chemical

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-27 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 05:44:57PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: On 5/27/2013 5:08 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 04:53:56PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: I don't think consciousness is an all-or-nothing property. You have to ask Consciousness of what? There's consciousness of

The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-26 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-26 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 05:05:28PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 26 May 2013, at 13:29, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the

Re: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

2013-05-26 Thread Jason Resch
On May 26, 2013, at 6:12 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 05:05:28PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 26 May 2013, at 13:29, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective