On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 5:30 AM Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote:
* > Most insects can't be consious (see my paper "Ants are not conscious").* *I just read the abstract, and its very first sentence is: * "*Anthropic reasoning is a form of statistical reasoning based upon finding oneself a member of a particular reference class of conscious beings*." *My question to you is, how do you know for a fact you are a member of a "class of conscious beings"? How do you even know that rocks aren't conscious? I DO know for a fact that I'm conscious, but I don't know for a fact that you are. The second sentence is:* "*By considering empirical distribution functions defined over animal life on Earth, we can deduce that the vast bulk of animal life is unlikely to be conscious*." *This is a classic example of assuming what you're trying to prove. * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> ovu > -- 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/CAJPayv2AQ2-fvWJtuB_-9ZX2NT2aZ4rOorNCtRshcKW3Z2W2sQ%40mail.gmail.com.
