Re: Does Searle's "Chinese Room" argument imply that consciousness is non-scientific?

"Alpha" <OmegaZero2003@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Curt Welch" <curt@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I just don't believe in dualism. It's inconsistent with everything we
know
about the universe so I choose to believe we are not dualistic. I
believe that the physical world, and the mental world, are not two
separate things,
but that they are one and the same thing.

Perhaps better put: One thing with two (or more) very different aspects;
1. the machinations of atoms, moelecules, cells and fields etc., and 2.
the psychological machinations of which we are all familiar. All arranged
in "strange loops", hierarchies, feedback/feedforward loops and complex
adaptive "subsystems/systems".

Clocks have different aspects than radios, which have different aspects
from a T-shirt which has different aspects from a diamond ring which have
different aspects from a brain. Everything has different aspects which we
can sense. That's how we know they are different. However, the foundation
of all their aspects, is the normal stuff of physics (atoms and their
fields of interaction, etc.). The only difference in all these items, is
how their atoms interact because of the different structures created by
atoms.

What I reject as being so unlikely it's not even work talking about (except
for the fact that a huge percentage of the world doesn't reject it so I
keep having to talk about it), is the belief that consciousness is anything
other than just more of the same - the behavior of atoms.

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