Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Consciousness Explained - New book Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:14:31 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 26 Message-ID: <596C39A7.1BB7@ix.netcom.com> References: Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: X9ItFNC7Zcz4l6MobL/YRA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 170716-0, 07/16/2017), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:425254 Ned Latham wrote: > > Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > > > Consciousness is part of reality and must be covered in a true > > TOE even though physics completely ignores it. Thus physics > > itself can't possibly construct a true TOE. > > Nonsense. > > > Consciousness isn't a physical phenomenon > > It is a *consequence* of three physical phenomena: > > 1. The development of cell structires with a capacity for the > behaviours that we call "memory"; > 2. The development in those cells of a capacity for the behaviours > that we call "habituation" and "aversion"; > 3. The development of mssively complex structures in which squillions > of those cells interact. > > No need to "add something" to the everything. > > ----snip---- Those three points creates the "illusion" of ...consciousness.