John Searle: Our shared condition Consciousness
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pub Jul 22 2013.</p>
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"get tenure first" advice of v senior neurobio. from UCSF to John, v early.</p>
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consc is a bio phenomenon like photosynthesis or digestion;</p>
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consc is as mysterious as the liquidity of the water:
it's a system property of the water molecules (not something extra);</p>
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maybe we can build consc machine, but we don't know how we do it.</p>
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unified consc field; is the key...</p>
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one and the same event has two different kinds of descriptions...</p>
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we just need the right software,,,,
no; software is symbol manipulation; zeros and ones;
no consc has semantics (in addition to symbols)</p>
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semantics/ consc creates an obsserver indep reality money, government, a university, marriage, reality....
their existence is relative to each individuals consc....</p>
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can have a completely objective science about a subjective domain...
(that is what neurosc does, eg try to reduce pain or to understand it)...</p>
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behaviorism is one of the great embarrasments of our intellectual tradition...
(pain behavior is different than feeling of pain! obvious refutation);</p>
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