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Originally Posted by Dent
Experience has been able to produce things that look mechanistic!  |
True, I think it's just semantics.
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We create tools, then mold ourselves to the use of them. Reality isn't some thing in front of us on a proscenium stage; it's a movable feast. We are creating technologies, then we are the technologies. Our heart isn't like a pump, it is a pump. Our brain isn't like a computer it is a computer. Until the next thing comes along. Now you're a neural net. Now you're an information system.
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I like this quote a lot ^
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Originally Posted by Dent
I just don't think that you can do it with digital computing, or moulding it out of clay (if you take out all the organic compounds out of the clay)
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So you suspect it is something about organic compounds/biological matter is the key to consciousness? That is very interesting if so because I don't think I have seen the question structured this way. That is a very legitimate argument I think.
If that is true, you would have to admit there is some kind of a "magical" element to biological/organic matter that allows for consciousness to develop.