Speculation on organic consciousness is pretty much esoteric, too, given that science can’t even reach a consensus on a definition of “consciousness” yet.
For that matter, the scientific boundary between “organic” and “inorganic” is really fuzzy.
Speculation on organic consciousness is pretty much esoteric, too,
I don’t disagree. I just don’t see any reason for even an esoteric basis to speculate that consciousness is in any way analogous to computer software simply because “we invented this thing so we must apply it’s logic to ourselves.” It smacks of the “machine” view of how the human body works that became prevalent in medicine after industrialisation - and even today it is still a way of understanding human physiology that causes far more problems than it solves.
That’s a different point to the one I was replying to. I was replying to your dismissal of the conversation as esoteric, based on it discussing specifically non-organic consciousness.
That’s because everybody arguing with me is conflating me saying that consciousness is not software with an attack on their favourite sci-fi genre (cyberpunk). And they’re completely missing the whole point of cyberpunk by doing so, if you ask me.
Speculation on organic consciousness is pretty much esoteric, too, given that science can’t even reach a consensus on a definition of “consciousness” yet.
For that matter, the scientific boundary between “organic” and “inorganic” is really fuzzy.
I don’t disagree. I just don’t see any reason for even an esoteric basis to speculate that consciousness is in any way analogous to computer software simply because “we invented this thing so we must apply it’s logic to ourselves.” It smacks of the “machine” view of how the human body works that became prevalent in medicine after industrialisation - and even today it is still a way of understanding human physiology that causes far more problems than it solves.
Ie, there’s no speculative basis for it.
That’s a different point to the one I was replying to. I was replying to your dismissal of the conversation as esoteric, based on it discussing specifically non-organic consciousness.
That’s because everybody arguing with me is conflating me saying that consciousness is not software with an attack on their favourite sci-fi genre (cyberpunk). And they’re completely missing the whole point of cyberpunk by doing so, if you ask me.
That’s fine but, again, not the point I was responding to
Yes, and I’m not responding to your original point because, again, I don’t disagree with it.