Re:Is Matter Conscious? (2017)
by CuriouslyC on Monday February 25, 2019 @02:05PM
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If you mean conscious as in "acts like a human" then sure. If you mean conscious as in "has an internal experience" then that doesn't follow at all.
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Re:Is Matter Conscious? (2017)
by hackinthebochs on Monday February 25, 2019 @03:50PM
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It is an open question what exactly internal experience is. It is begging the question to say its obvious that physical processes cannot have internal experience. But if we have no information regarding whether physical processes can have internal experience, then it is reasonable to prefer physicalism on grounds of parsimony.