On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 08:55:09PM -0700, Pierz wrote: > > Anyway it seems that if we're committed to computationalism plus Church > thesis, then we have to consider the possibility that evolution may be a > conscious process - indeed the onus should be on us to say why it *wouldn't* > be > conscious.
I don't think we know enough about consciousness to really say one way or the other, so no the onus is not on anyone. Nevertheless, I highly suspect that our human consciousnesses are in fact evolutionary processes, which I know is an answer to a very different question. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
