From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 00:12:35 BST
Scott:
I accept your view. There's evidence of consciousness (response to value)
all the way back to the lowly virus. Further, it's known that atoms
exhibit value responses to their environment. The materialist explanation
has yet to go beyond the swiss cheese phase, i.e. it's full of holes.
Platt
> My own view (which is not generally accepted here) is that to speak of
> value is to speak of consciousness (awareness of value). Since, according
> to the MOQ, there is value at all levels, so must there be consciousness at
> all levels. In other words, consciousness did not arise at some point in
> time, and the idea that consciousness is a consequence of the nervous
> system reaching some level of complexity is just a materialist error.
>
> - Scott
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