Maybe you should shutup.
If you tell everybody who criticizes you to shut up, you'll soon be out of debating partners. Is that what you want?
If I want to write a book, I will, and it will be published, because I said so.
If your book gets published, it's because
your publisher said so, not you, make no mistake about that.
I know that I atleast write good enough for my English teacher to say that I am much brighter than the other students in the school, though teachers ussually complement too much. Wheather or not I am good enough to be published will be decided when the day comes.
You may be bright, but, as you'll see when you scrutinize those two sentences, even bright people need a spelling checker every now and then. Just keep that in mind.
It makes perfect sense to me that carbon and electricity can't produce consciousness. They can produce simulated thought but not the experiencing or thoughts, perceptions, or sensations. Carbon and electricity obviosully don't produce conciousness. Electronic Enceplograms aren't proof of a cause. They are merely proof of a relationship.
The brain is largely made of carbon and has a lot of electrical activity going on inside. Take away the carbon: gone is consciousness. Take away the electricity: gone is consciousness. To me, that suggests that carbon and electricity
do produce consciousness. And since carbon is a bit like silicon, I don't see why, in principle, silicon and electricity couldn't do the same.
I am not saying that there is a barrier between consciousness and physical interactions, I am just saying that physical interactions are incapable of producing consciousness.
I think you say that because you cannot imagine
how physical interactions produce consciousness. You're in good company, because no one knows precisely how it works. But that doesn't mean it's impossible. The fact that a blow on the head may result in a temporay cessation of conscious activity is strong evidence for a direct connection between physical activity and consciousness, wouldn't you say?
Edited by Parasomnium, : No reason given.
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.
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