Assuming nature does not make jumps, now, sensory experiences (consciousness) are neither illusion or brain's story for itself, but do belong to the essence of a every cell? Problem solved?
How to understand cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas – https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-understand-cells-tissues-and-organisms-as-agents-with-agendas … via @aeonmag
My colleague Michael Levin has opened up a whole world of phenomena that are illuminated by adopting the intentional stance. He's been teaching me a lot. Check it out.
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What you call 'intentional stance' is what a single cell is specialized to or tasked to do smth, IMO.
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agent as a term implies consciousness. surely there is a better way to characterize this process.
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And it's phenomenal consciousness.
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Interesting and worthwhile. Thank you for the link.
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Looks very interesting, thank you.
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A nested hierarchy of agency. This is the idea Freud and Jung struggled their entire lives to articulate (unconscious drives and the collective unconscious, respectively). This idea is also implicit in Panksepp’s categorical model of emotional affect.
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Natural intelligence has long been at work, in so many spieces of life. The behavior exhibited by natural animals including human animals, is unmistakably brimful of evidence of intelligent organisms at work. Open your eyes! It all happens physically, electromagnetically, FYI.
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Frankly, there are few examples of what can be deemed unintelligent behavior, in genera, in the so-called Animal Kindom of Nature. Life is inherently intelligent in the critical sense that all organisms process information. Phyisical intelligence evolved, i.e in terms of brains.
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For one horrible moment I thought DD might be slithering towards panpsychism...
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What’s the functional difference between panpsychism and eliminativism?
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