Philosophy Now Forum

Hello I would like for someone who knows about it, to write a bit on the probability of artificial intelligence one day developing artificial consciousness, please. It would be great if you had studied the subject but also were able to tell us about it in an interesting manner :D. Sorry, I’m not be...

In the end, it is concepts which are going to have to explain consciousness in terms of brain mechanisms. The problem is, concepts require a lower level to explain things in terms of something else. But if the case is that consciousness is identical to certain brain mechanisms, you have nothing oth...

You missed that consciousness can be RELATIVE. That is, it may be both one and many but dependent upon perspective. For example, a pair of twins each have independent consciousness from each of their perspectives. But they also have a "collective consciousness" when they share the same ev...

Thank you for the link. It looks relatable to the topic as it applies to the SETI project when trying to determine IF some other intellectual life is able to be like our 'consciousness' should we discover it. The link was actually supposed to point to the topic "Communication Using The Inter M...

All particles in the universe are interacting with each other. This means that we have one process. Materialism claims that consciousness is the result of process in matter. Therefore there should be one consciousness. There are more than one consciousness. Therefore materialism is false. You misse...

"Consciousness" is the set of activity communicating between two different points in space OF two distinct material beings (regardless of what they are) dependent upon ONLY those subparts in each of them that share the same logical structure AND is able and succeeds in transferring some m...

In the end, it is concepts which are going to have to explain consciousness in terms of brain mechanisms. The problem is, concepts require a lower level to explain things in terms of something else. But if the case is that consciousness is identical to certain brain mechanisms, you have nothing oth...

Just like god concepts, it cannot be defined in such a way as to be testable. Even consciousness can't be defined in that way, so to posit an exterior explanation is a step more removed from possibility. AFTER you have a testable definition of consciousness, THEN we can talk about testing how it wo...

Seriously, how do you propose to even start stuffing something like the Color Red, or the Standard A Tone, or the Taste of Salt back into the Neurons? Rhetorical, because I know not you nor anyone else on the planet can even begin to Explain this. But let's look at the Visual System to get a feel f...

Just like god concepts, it cannot be defined in such a way as to be testable. Even consciousness can't be defined in that way, so to posit an exterior explanation is a step more removed from possibility. AFTER you have a testable definition of consciousness, THEN we can talk about testing how it wo...

The answer to any intractable problem, like philosophy, economics, physics, is a simplified framework or set of maxims that leads to actionable certainty (the purpose of all knowledge, wisdom, and understanding). Some answers raise more questions than they answer, and those questions can't Be answe...

That is the use of lay "quantum == magic" understanding of Quantum Physics. It doesn't hold any water scientifically. It's just plain weird to reject that QM has something to do with Consciousness. One of the most accepted points of view of QM says that Consciousness is involved in the re...

Not knowing how qualities are held by matter does not mean that they are not, or provide confirmation that there is "some other realm" for it. That is an argument based on a lack of knowledge, not a positive argument. Seriously, how do you propose to even start stuffing something like the...

You have no way to Explain how something like the Color Red, the Standard A Tone, or the Taste of Salt can happen as a result of Neurons Firing. These Conscious Experiences refuse to be stuffed back into the Neurons. It is highly Scientific to give them a place to Exist in, namely some sort of Cons...

There is a way to test Conscious Space if we speculate further about things. If Quantum Mechanics is the conduit between Physical Space and Conscious Space then we can perform Experiments using certain QM principles as in: http://www.theintermind.com/MachConExperiment/MachConExperiment.asp That is ...