"The mind is an evolved system." True but was it mere happenstance or was it directed? The curse of dimensionality kills the happenstance hypothesis. Besides, we see a fabulous 3D vista in front of us that is 100% non-physical. It exists neither in the brain nor in the world.
The mind is an evolved system. As such, it is unclear whether it emerges from a unified principle (a physics-like theory of cognition), or is the result of a complicated assemblage of ad-hoc processes that just happen to work. It's probably a bit of both
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The brain has only neuronal pulses to work with. How does a physical system convert neuronal pulses into a non-physical 3D vista that appears outside the brain? Materialists have no answer because they willingly handicap themselves.
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Did you see the article in Nature about the giant neuron wrapped around the brain that might orchestrate consciousness? https://www.nature.com/news/a-giant-neuron-found-wrapped-around-entire-mouse-brain-1.21539 …
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May I recommend the author Peter Watts? Specifically, the book "Blindsight"? Because:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/513419-evolution-has-no-foresight-complex-machinery-develops-its-own-agendas …
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I don’t understand what the two alternatives are. How could you tell the difference?
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A physics theory of consciousness is by far much more interesting than just a serendipity
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Both options seem quite similar.
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I'm more and more inclined to think the latter
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To try to understand the mind with just physics and CS is like trying to understand the universe with the physics of Newton... so simplistic and inadequate. Suggest people branch out a bit... start with Francis Cricks Astonishing Hypothesis...
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But, of course, there is fabulous theory of cognition waiting to be discovered. Something as awesome as cognition is not the result of chaos and dice play.
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Evolution isn't chaos, is it?
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