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

On Oct 6, 6:54 am, Don Geddis <d...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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In the brain, we have sensors on some parts of neural
processing, but not on other parts. The parts of thought
that we can sense, we call "conscious".

The parts of thought that we can sense I would call the
contents of the process we call "consciousness".

In part, because we can introspect about it. And the
stuff we can't sense, is "subconscious".

Which is a way of saying the contents are not part of
the conscious process.

To emphasize why it is a process not just something you
"sense" think about our raw senses and then what we do
with them. If you sense something, that something can
be the result, the output, of a processing of those raw
sensory inputs (be they internal or external).

When we first have a visual sense of the example of
the hidden Dalmatian dog all we are aware of, all we
have processed, is the blobs of ink. After processing
we sense the dog. Our awareness of the dog is the
result of a process.


As for subconscious processes they are physically
identical and would look the same in terms of a simple
observation of your "brain scanner" but they are
not being used the same way. They do not have the
functional effect on the behavior of the organism
we call "conscious" behaviors.

And by consciousness I mean it in clinical terms
which involve the changes in behavior following
sensory stimulation not simply our internal
sensing of these same behaviors.


--
JC



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