Hi Alberto,
OK, I am officially confused by your statements. You previously
wrote: "Magic emergence from magic enough complexity has been advocated
for almost anything." and now you suggest that consciousness is
contingent on a level of evolution, ala: "... in this stage of evolution
a form of consciousness becomes a necessity".
How is this not an argument for emergence from complexity? What is
evolution other than a mechanism in Nature to generate increasing stable
complex structures in the physical universe? Either consciousness is an
irreducible primitive or it is not?
I agree that complexity *is* involved when we consider issues such
as "reportablity" of consciousness, but the property of "having a
subjective experience of being in the world" itself can be strongly
argued to flow at the most basic level that allows differences.
On 10/16/2012 10:04 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
I argued previously about that the most primitive conciousness
emerged from predation/prey dynamics and the neural machinery
necessary for them. Because in this stage of evolution a form of
consciousness becomes a necessity, not a gift given by the Gods of
computation Turing and Godel, among others ;)
2012/10/16 Stephen P. King <stephe...@charter.net
<mailto:stephe...@charter.net>>
On 10/16/2012 9:36 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
Magic emergence from magic enough complexity has been advocated
for almost anything. Most of the time as an excuse for not
saying "I don´t know", that is the prerequisite for thinking
deeper about the problem. I prefer to say I don´t know.
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Onward!
Stephen
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