Re: Consciousness and information, etc.

[John Kineman <***>]

John M.

I personally agree and like the idea of sensitivity related to induction
of qualia, and have no problem with calling it a form of consciousness.
I also like the idea of "sensitivity" to skirt the predictable debate
over meanings of the c-word. For one thing, anesthesiologists point out
that they make people "unconscious," but don't kill them, and yet most
of our living functions (and "sensitivities") continue at an autonomic
level, still sensitive, still "conscious"? - in what sense? So they are
meaning by consciousness what stops under anesthetics. Hammeroff was
particularly interested in this question where people go when they are
out, as a practicing anesthesiologist, but his quantum mind ideas ended
up convincing him that some form of consciousness is ubiquitous. I don't
know the answer.
John K.

John M wrote:

> ,,,
> After said that about 'info', my pan-sensitivity refers to it as a quale to
> respond to (any) info. Like a stone to an applied pressure: it falls apart.
> (Not only from 'single cell (living?) organisms' up).
>
> ...Sorry, I cannot distinguish it from consciousness,