On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> You will note that there is no claim here about any theory of >> consciousness: it could be intrinsic to matter, it could come from >> tiny black holes inside cells, it could be generated on the fly by >> God. Whatever it is, can it be separated from function? > > What do you mean by function? Is yellow a function? Is irony or comedy > a function? On the one hand there is the third person observable behaviour of the neurons: they fire in a certain sequence and ultimately they cause muscle contraction. On the other hand there is that which can only be experienced by the first person. Can these be separated, so that neurons can be made which cause the muscles to contract in the same sequence when substituted into the brain but lack the subjective qualities of normal neurons? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
