On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 4:29 PM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
* >So you wrote a whole paragraph but it's unclear whether you are agreeing > with me that consciousness is NOT just some mysterious byproduct of > intelligence,* > Consciousness is not mysterious, unless you think a brute fact is mysterious, but there are only two ways an iterative sequence of "how" or "why" questions can go, it can either terminate with a brute fact or it goes on forever. I think an iterated sequence of questions going on forever is far more mysterious than a brute fact. And I think it's a brute fact that consciousness is the way data feels when it is being processed. > *>but is an essential source of intelligent actions because it provides > plans and evaluates planned actions and scenarios.* > You've got cause-and-effect mixed up. Consciousness is not a source of intelligent action, consciousness is an inevitable consequence of intelligence. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>m asd sssfisdft n -- 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/CAJPayv2tGnc5KSCnKoJeK0h1wbP93Fp2io_qqtO2cpQE7u9mng%40mail.gmail.com.
