On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 2:39 PM Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Forget BF Skinner, this is more general than consciousness or behavior. >> If you want to explain Y at the most fundamental level from first >> principles you can't start with "X produces Y'' and then use X as part of >> your explanation of Y. >> > > *> OK, I want to explain consciousness from first principles, so Y = > consciousness. What is X? * > Something that shows up on a brain scan machine according to you. *> I'm interested in a theory of consciousness that can tell me, among > other things, how it is that we have conscious experiences when we dream. > Don't you wonder about that?* > I am far more interested in understanding the mental activity of a person when he's awake then when he's asleep. *> I'm very curious about how intelligence works too. * > Glad to hear it, but there's 10 times or 20 times more verbiage about consciousness than intelligence on this list. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> . > >> . >> >> . >> >> >> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3GiVYXroetrK-EU1ai2Pg6nv8P%2B1RBrmKZ0yQGaX%2BfaA%40mail.gmail.com.
