[ExI] Bringing new life to dead matter

[Dan]

On Wednesday, June 6, 2012 2:30 AM Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a compelling argument. I particularly liked the kid's science
> project. Nice one. I think I did underestimate plants. Still,
> consciousness?

I think one might consider a slightly different approach. Rather than work backward from beings we know (or believe we know) are conscious to see what makes them so, work from things or systems and try to figure out if we would ever predict consciousness from their components or arrangements of components. For instance, whatever in observing neurons firing or molecules moving about in neurons would ever give one the inclination to posit more than neurons firing or molecules moving about was going on?

Regards,

Dan
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