On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 6:09 AM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I doubt quantum gravitation and consciousness have much to do with each > other. I could not agree with you more! About the only thing quantum gravity and consciousness have in common is that they're both somewhat mysterious. The biggest difference between the two is that the human race has made enormous progress in understanding gravity over the centuries but precisely zero progress in understanding consciousness. My hunch for the reason for that is that there is simply nothing to understand; it's just a brute fact that consciousness is the way data feels when it is being processed intelligently. That would explain why Darwinian Evolution (random mutation plus natural selection) bothered to make something conscious in the first place, because although evolution can't see consciousness it can see intelligent behavior. That's why I'm conscious, and that's probably why you're conscious too; assuming that is that I'm not the only conscious being in the universe, and I rather doubt that I am. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> grx > -- 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/CAJPayv3FSc1setV2XFq2vz2Nx3iavtqW0LJGmDWyijHtCY2G5w%40mail.gmail.com.
