Yes I lean that way, because, for instance: a tree has been the object of so much preoccupation of sentient beings: bearer off rip unit, object of aesthetic appreciation, the use of its trunk for building, the bearer of the fruit which condemned mankind, the tree of life…
Whatever is appreciated so very much has a great intrinsic value, and it is, as if, there is a sense of awe going on here, which can not escape it’s binary function. The appreciation, it seems, or almost seems, is a two way transaction, as if the tree was actually made for man.
This is getting close, I think of sensing a relationship of some kind between inorganic, lower and higher organic substance. I don’t accept clear demarcations between various levels of structure, sine the organization of matter determines the it’s particular evolution.
If we start this way of looking at it reversely, from man down, the connection is still there, but in a different form. At the other extreme, there is God.
“Perception” requires a degree of complexity beyond being merely affected or affecting. Affect is a “predicate” to existence. Perception is a predicate to consciousness.
And “organic” is merely a class of chemical makeup. It does not necessitate the existence of any other particular attribute or function. The function of perception and the consequential consciousness can be emulated by many things, organic or non-organic. Being organic is merely having carbon and oxygen as the base molecules. Silicon and oxygen can perform the same basic functions and thus can be used to form a living being with perception and consciousness. Many computers certainly perceive and are already conscious to a small degree, ever growing.
I know that we already had this discussion in another thread, but my question is again: How can we currently know for sure that they are already conscious to a small degree?
Full Definition of perception
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a : a result of perceiving : observation (see perceive)
b : a mental image : concept
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obsolete : consciousness
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a : awareness of the elements of environment through physical sensation
b : physical sensation interpreted in the light of experience
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a : quick, acute, and intuitive cognition : appreciation
b : a capacity for comprehension
Do you mean emulated in the same way that humans perceive, sensate and have consciousness?
How can that be?!
(a) and (b) leave me questioning…with a perhaps appear to emulate…but just questioning. lol
Ultimately though, I don’t intuit that non-human living things share or experience our perceptions, sensations and consciousness, not in the ways in which humans do although everything is inter-connected and flows together in a sense, but not in a human sense.
To know if something is conscious first requires that you personally decide what being conscious really means. Once you decide what it means and learn how it works, it is easy to determine where it is or isn’t. Until then, one cannot be certain if a machine is conscious or not, nor a tree, nor a paper towel. It is much like the discussions of “God” in that if you never decide what the word “God” really means, define it, then no discussion or thought concerning is actually relevant nor certain.
It is always up to you to decide what it is that YOU mean when YOU say “consciousness” (or anything else). So just precisely and unambiguously explain what YOU mean by the word. If it isn’t too much different than what others seem to mean, maybe they can get their answers too.
Life by definition makes sense, it makes sensory qualia information, life’s function is to make sense. life=make sense.
That is my setting the table, starting the game, neuronal calibration, language calibration.
Now, I will await for someone to contribute something interesting.
I define consciousness as the basic feature of a biological organism and nothing else so it does not have to
be capable of abstract thought or self aware. It simply has to be a life form which is alive. So all members
of the animal and plant kingdom. And bacteria as well [ since it is from the latter that all other life came ]
It does not have to be capable of it, but it does anyhow. Should it?
Does it make any difference?
If it makes no difference, then humanity should not have evolved anyways.
Because it makes a difference it has become a tautologically oppressive anti-power, argued differentially, from the flatlined reasoning of pure logic.
That is the difference between Frege/Wittgenstein and Russell, besides the primary difference of the definition of substance.
Yes I do. The source is the same, but the effect is different with them.
Russell held to a material substantive, whereas Frege, et. al held to a non material, essential substance.
The significance lies in how this difference influenced people like Quine, and those in the behavioral sciences, who saw a focus on behaviorally based pragmatic-empirical determinants, versus those who sought analysis through linguistic determinants.
There was dissent within the Vienna Circle in respect to it.
Russell was opposed through his upholding a synthesis, as a neo-Kantian idea of his ‘sense-data’, which is a literal equal of an idea as representation. Critiques reduced this into the absurd notion of the sense(of the sense((of the sense(((of the sense…of…data) )) )))…unto an infinite sequence. This reduction, they claimed totally destroyed the sense of data as material. The detractors, therefore, counter claimed, that the material was essential a representation of pure logic.
And science has never resolved this issue. Absent any formal conciliation, beyond certain limits, the exactness of applications beyond those limits remain in exact.
in case at hand are certain mathematical-logical paradigmns to which data should be expected to ascribe to.
Gottlob Frege influenced everyone, also Edmund Husserl who followed Frege especially by adopting his distinction between logic and psychology (cp. Frege’s “Sinn und Bedeutung”) which led Husserl to his kind of phenomenology.
No. (1.) I would not go so far and speak of a “split”, and (2.) there was not only an English or, as you say, an Anglo empirism but also a German or, as you say, a Continental empirism. The Berliner Kreis (Berlinese Circle, a.k.a. Berliner Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie) and the Wiener Kreis (Vienese Circle) founded the Neupositivismus (Neopositivism), also known as Logischer Empirismus (Logical Empirism).
The term “immediately findable total content” means that the total content of the spiritual and emotional experience can be immediately found and, for example, communicated to others. Not all content is always present. Forgotten content, for example, is not present anymore, and some parts of the forgotten content come back sometimes, … and so on.
