[FairfieldLife] Re: Nagel for Salyavin

2013-08-21 Thread Jason
--- authfriend authfriend@... wrote: The Core of `Mind and Cosmos'By THOMAS NAGEL http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/thomas-nagel/ This is a brief statement of positions defended more fully in my book Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nagel for Salyavin

2013-08-21 Thread Jason
--- Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ wrote: Regarding Nagel, having just read the NYTimes article. snip We are on the threshold of a robotics revolution. Can a robot be conscious? --- authfriend authfriend@... wrote: Is there something it is like to be a robot? Or would a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nagel for Salyavin

2013-08-21 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason jedi_spock@... wrote: --- authfriend authfriend@ wrote: The Core of `Mind and Cosmos'By THOMAS NAGEL http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/thomas-nagel/ This is a brief statement of positions defended more fully in my book Mind and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nagel for Salyavin

2013-08-20 Thread salyavin808
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote: Thanks for seeking it out. The Core of `Mind and Cosmos'By THOMAS NAGEL http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/thomas-nagel/ This is a brief statement of positions defended more fully in my book Mind and Cosmos:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nagel for Salyavin

2013-08-20 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: Thanks for seeking it out. I didn't seek it out, actually. It was in the NYTimes yesterday, which I read daily. The Core of `Mind and Cosmos'By

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nagel for Salyavin

2013-08-20 Thread Xenophaneros Anartaxius
Regarding Nagel, having just read the NYTimes article. If we look at existence if it is 'objective', perhaps this conundrum exists because we have not determined whether consciousness is a property that exists locally (as in the brain), or non-locally (as equally distributed everywhere). If

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nagel for Salyavin

2013-08-20 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: Regarding Nagel, having just read the NYTimes article. snip We are on the threshold of a robotics revolution. Can a robot be conscious? Is there something it is like to be a robot? Or would a robot that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nagel for Salyavin

2013-08-20 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, salyavin808 fintlewoodlewix@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@ wrote: Thanks for seeking it out. The Core of `Mind and Cosmos'By THOMAS NAGEL http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/thomas-nagel/ This

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nagel for Salyavin

2013-08-20 Thread doctordumbass
There is a conditioning of the mind that occurs, whereby pure awareness is always there, 24/7, even in the deepest sleep. My personal take on science not being able to resolve some of these questions is that the instrumentation is still very, very, coarse, relative to what they are attempting

[FairfieldLife] Re: Nagel for Salyavin

2013-08-20 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... no_reply@... wrote: There is a conditioning of the mind that occurs, whereby pure awareness is always there, 24/7, even in the deepest sleep. My personal take on science not being able to resolve some of these questions is that the