
Gualtiero Piccinini on computation and the mind
Thing in itself
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Penpsychism Is a Very Speculative Idea
Penpsychists think that it explains How we can be conscious, but I don't really see how it really explains anything. So then the question is where do we draw the line? um and well on what basis AndUm And that is also a difficult question so unless we want to say everything's conscious Then we want to saying well, something's a conscious and things are notSo another reason Oh, I'm sorry. You know the evidence suggests That even we the parrotting medicays of a conscious creature are not always conscious. To me that suggests that There's a good chance Animals that have a sleep-wake cycle with a nervous system similar to ours Probably have some kind of phenomenal
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