On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 1:41 PM Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote:
*> I finished this section for my article on consciousness:* > > > *https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jq3uOucSStCPe5TQnUv-8YWvGUW05Enr/view?usp=sharing > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jq3uOucSStCPe5TQnUv-8YWvGUW05Enr/view?usp=sharing>* > > *It is an important question, because if zombies are not possible, then > consciousness is not optional. Rather, consciousness would be logically > necessary, in any system having the right configuration.* > Anybody who claims that philosophical zombies are possible needs to ask themselves one question. Natural selection cannot select for something it cannot see, and it can't directly see consciousness any better than we can, except in ourselves; so how did Evolution manage to produce at least one conscious being, and probably many billions of them? I think the answer is that although Evolution can't see consciousness it can certainly see intelligent activity, so consciousness must be an inevitable byproduct of intelligence. Or to put it another way, it's a brute fact that consciousness is the way data feels when it is being processed. After all, without exception, every iterated sequence of "why" or "how" questions either goes on forever or terminates in a brute fact. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> wfn -- 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/CAJPayv22TpFn-H7jURMaaPGWUHpVssEHLAtfM%3DF8BWUxFEu7zg%40mail.gmail.com.
