On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
"So you believe that the theory according to which consciousness is a gift > by a creationist God is as bad as the theory according to which > consciousness is related to brain activity?" > If creationists could explain consciousness then I would be a creationists, but they can not. Brain activity does not explain consciousness either. I don't know how but I believe as certainly as I believe anything that intelligence causes consciousness. I believe this not because I can prove it but because I simply could not function if I thought I was the only conscious being in the universe. " the quanta does not exist primitively but emerge, in the comp case, from > number relations." > What sort of numbers, computable numbers or the far more common non-computable numbers? And what sort of relations.? > "This means that indeed we can write simple program leading to > intelligence" > I don't know what that simple program could be, but I have already given a example of a simple program leading to emotion. > "My whole point is that intelligence is not a constructive concept, like > consciousness you cannot define it." > Intelligence is problem solving; not a perfect definition by any means but far far better than any known definition of consciousness. Examples are better than definitions anyway, intelligence is what Einstein did and consciousness is what I am. John K Clark -- 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.
