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From: grintjes@sci.kun.nl (Tom E.J. Gruintjes)
Subject: Re: Is CONSCIOUSNESS continuous? discrete? quantized?
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 12:05:41 GMT
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You wrote :

"if consciousness is an epiphenomena of the brains neural net. then what
is so special about this bit of software that make it conscious
and the software under silicon apparently not?"

Isn't it true that you are disregarding the fact that the "wetware" you
are referring to is dynamical and the "hardware" is statical :
the wetware is bombed with information (from the outside and/or the inside
of an organism) and it changes constantly (continuesly) becos of that.
Silicon stays the same and cannot, fudamentally, exhibit any property
related to the wetware.                 

So in fact your analogy silicon vs. brain doesn't hold for solving the
conscious-problem, to my opinion.


Tom

