Couldn't wait – made my covid-delayed move to Washington State (across the Columbia River from Portland, OR) a couple of months ago. No more assbackwards, sunstoke belt, Red State hate for me in this life! The scuttlebutt is it's better than even odds MTG will lose the primary next week (like that other trump-stain Madison Cawthorn did this week in NC). I didn't live in her district anyway ... :smirk:Hey my man! Hope all is good is peach country. Get rid of that effin lunatic Taylor Greene... Phew! — creativesoul
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I suggest that a theory of consciousness should take experience as fundamental. — Janus
You said "there is no ether" and since you were drawing an analogy between the ether and consciousness, it seemed reasonable to think you were suggesting that there is no consciousness. — Janus
Electromagnatic waves do not move through either, that is the analogy. I am saying that consciousness is no more mysterious than the fact we think, walk, and talk. — Jackson
In reference to AI: A machine can think without what we call consciousness. That is, you do not need consciousness to think or have intelligence. — Jackson
You/we attribute "purpose" to the process (i.e. anthropomorphism) — 180 Proof
:roll: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnthropomorphismAnthropomorphism is the idea that humans are the only reality ...
One property of Intelligence is the ability to respond to the environment and make new things. I would also call the evolution of the universe from the BigBang to now an intelligent process. — Jackson
Leibniz criticized mechanism because it excluded purpose (Aristotle's telos) from explanations. Nature is purposeful. Not always, not always in a good way, but it exhibits purpose--accomplishing an end. — Jackson
you realize that Dennett is saying that science contains the explanation for consciousness right? — GLEN willows
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