Quentin Anciaux wrote:
> On Thursday 28 June 2007 16:52:12 Torgny Tholerus wrote:
>> Bruno Marchal skrev:
>>> But nobody really doubts about his own consciousness
>>> (especially going to the dentist), despite we cannot define it nor
>>> explain it completely.
>> That sentence is wrong.
>
> Don't think so...
>
>> There is at least one person (me...) that
>> really doubts about my own consciousness. I am conscious about that I
>> am not conscious. I know that I does not know anything. When I go to
>> the dentist I behave as if I am feeling strong pain, because my pain
>> center is directly stimulated by the dentist, which is causing my
>> behaviour.
>
> What is behaving ? (can't ask for who obviously you're insisting that there
> isn't any).
>
>> Consciouslike behaviour is good for a species to survive. Therefore
>> human beings show that type of behaviour.
>
> I don't know what is consciouslike behaviour without consciousness in the
> first place.
>
> Quenton
But if consciousness is implied by conscious like behavior then it may
be explained by the same things that explain behavior, i.e. physics and
chemistry.
Brent Meeker
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