Re:Is Consciousness Computable?
by crystaln on Thursday May 08, 2014 @09:11PM
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Your presumption is that consciousness falls within the domain of physics, which is not by any means a good assumption.
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Re:Is Consciousness Computable?
by brianberns on Thursday May 08, 2014 @09:26PM
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Really? I can provide plenty of evidence that consciousness falls within the domain of physics. Can you provide any that it's not?
> I can provide plenty of evidence that consciousness falls within the domain of physics
So then provide some.
Regardless of any evidence you have, it's certainly not conclusive, given the minimal understanding we have of existence and consciousness. And presuming your hypothesis to be true simply because you have some evidence seems rather unscientific.
This present experience falls outside the domain of physics. Physics is just models. This present experience is real. Ideas and models about reality are not reality, but rather contained within it.
> This present experience falls outside the domain of physics. [...] This present experience is real.
So does/is the "material world" (assuming it is a thing of its own).
A model of the universe that doesn't take consciousness into account is incomplete.