34827Y148 WeCannotProveAnyOfTheseClaims, Because ~
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THEY ARE IN FACT
VARIATIONS ON THE PROBLEM OF OTHER MINDS.
SINCE WE ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH ANY ALGORITHM
THAT REQUIRES CONSCIOUSNESS, ANYTHING AN ANIMAL DOES
CAN BE SEEN AS THE PRODUCT OF NON-CONSCIOUS ALGORITHMS
RATHER THAN OF CONSCIOUS MEMORIES AND PLANS. So in Santino's case too,
the real question concerns the burden of proof! What ìs the móst likely explanation
for Santino's behaviour? Should we assume that he ìs consciously planning for the future,
and anyone who disagrees shóuld provide counter-evidence? Or is it móre reasonable to think
that the chimpanzee is driven by a nòn-conscious algorithm, and all he consciously feels is just
a mysterious urge to place stones under his bales of straw? And even ìf Santino doesn't remember
the past & doesn't imagine the future, does it mean he lacks sèlfconsciousness? After all, we ascribe
self-consciousness to humans even when they are not busy remembering the past or dreaming about
the future. For example, when a human mother sees her toddler wandering onto a busy road, she doesn't stop
to think about past or future! Just like the mother elephant, she too just races to save her child! Why not say about her
what we say about the elephant, namely that 'WHEN THE MOTHER RUSHED TO SAVE HER BABY FROM THE ONCOMING DANGER,
SHE DID IT WITHOUT ANY SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS! SHE WAS MERELY DRIVEN BY A MOMENTARY URGE'? Similarly, consider a young COUPLE [LHBTI] PASSIONATELY ON THEIR FIRST DATE, A SOLDIER CHARGING INTO HEAVY ENEMY FIRE TO SAVE A WOUNDED COM-RADE, OR AN ARTIST DRAWING A MASTERPIECE IN A FROLICKING FRENZY OF BLURRY BRUSHSTROKES!
None of them stòps to contemplate the past or the future?!
Does it mean they lack self-consciousness, & that their
state of being is inferior to
that of a politician giving
an election speech about
his past achievements
& future
plans?
THEY ARE IN FACT
VARIATIONS ON THE PROBLEM OF OTHER MINDS.
SINCE WE ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH ANY ALGORITHM
THAT REQUIRES CONSCIOUSNESS, ANYTHING AN ANIMAL DOES
CAN BE SEEN AS THE PRODUCT OF NON-CONSCIOUS ALGORITHMS
RATHER THAN OF CONSCIOUS MEMORIES AND PLANS. So in Santino's case too,
the real question concerns the burden of proof! What ìs the móst likely explanation
for Santino's behaviour? Should we assume that he ìs consciously planning for the future,
and anyone who disagrees shóuld provide counter-evidence? Or is it móre reasonable to think
that the chimpanzee is driven by a nòn-conscious algorithm, and all he consciously feels is just
a mysterious urge to place stones under his bales of straw? And even ìf Santino doesn't remember
the past & doesn't imagine the future, does it mean he lacks sèlfconsciousness? After all, we ascribe
self-consciousness to humans even when they are not busy remembering the past or dreaming about
the future. For example, when a human mother sees her toddler wandering onto a busy road, she doesn't stop
to think about past or future! Just like the mother elephant, she too just races to save her child! Why not say about her
what we say about the elephant, namely that 'WHEN THE MOTHER RUSHED TO SAVE HER BABY FROM THE ONCOMING DANGER,
SHE DID IT WITHOUT ANY SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS! SHE WAS MERELY DRIVEN BY A MOMENTARY URGE'? Similarly, consider a young COUPLE [LHBTI] PASSIONATELY ON THEIR FIRST DATE, A SOLDIER CHARGING INTO HEAVY ENEMY FIRE TO SAVE A WOUNDED COM-RADE, OR AN ARTIST DRAWING A MASTERPIECE IN A FROLICKING FRENZY OF BLURRY BRUSHSTROKES!
None of them stòps to contemplate the past or the future?!
Does it mean they lack self-consciousness, & that their
state of being is inferior to
that of a politician giving
an election speech about
his past achievements
& future
plans?
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