Panpsychism is the idea that consciousness did not evolve to meet some survival need, nor did it emerge when brains became sufficiently complex. Inste...
I have tremendous problems with America, to the point where I'll probably become an expat when I retire. But I recognize a petty tyrant when I see one...
A panpsychist would say it's all conscious. I don't agree with it, but it's not a stupid position. They're not morons. I was being facetious with the ...
The upside is that we're not making a horrendous mistake and mistreating something that's conscious. There is no downside. But as I said before, this ...
No downside. There's no downside to forbidding people not to abuse their cars or toasters. It just seems kind of odd to treat something as conscious w...
Well then, let me ask you about brains. When did consciousness first arrive on the scene? Was coccocephalus wildi conscious? Were the dinosaurs? Is an...
I see. You said to me "I don't know whether you understand minds as functions of brains.". Yet you're saying now that "we don't know how consciousness...
How would an unconscious unaware mind be triggered by an outside source? By definition, the mind is unconscious and unaware, so how would it be aware ...
It's an insolvable problem. The only thing we can be sure of is our own consciousness. For the longest time, it was also a trivial problem, but now we...
Let's assume we have a being born with only one sense, touch. Is it going to be less conscious than someone with all five senses? Or is consciousness ...
"No, brain consciousness leads us to realize that matter and energy if organized correctly can be conscious." So if you have some matter and energy, a...
I'll think about it, but remember that a reductio ad absurdum assumes certain things in order to derive an absurdity. If I am making a reductio absurd...
I'm an idealist. I've identified as such here for quite awhile. I was meeting you halfway for sake of argument earlier. Don't accuse me of trolling, p...
I decided to take you up on that. Implicit in what you said is an assumption that there exist physical objects like brains. Why should I agree with yo...
Would a functional mechanical equivalent of a working brain be conscious? Would a simulation of a working brain be conscious? If yes to either of thos...
My argument is very simple: belief that brains cause consciousness leads to belief that machines can be conscious and machine consciousness is an absu...
But you're assuming here that brains produce consciousness. I think the idea of machine consciousness should make us question the currently prevalent ...
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