Irreducible by Federico Faggin

[Philosophy Now]

Frank S. Robinson doubts a holistic vision of life, the universe, and everything.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/170/Irreducible_by_Federico_Faggin

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Robinson writes "But even though we don’t know how consciousness emerges from brain processing, it makes sense that it must – whereas how panpsychism could be true has no explanation, and is an even bigger speculative leap." Consciousness emerging from brain processing is strong emergence which has never been demonstrated in any shape or form. Panpsychism on the other hand is explained by weak emergence which is found everywhere you look. Evolution is a well studied process of weak emergence. All our complex human actions weakly emerge from the comparatively simpler actions of our cells. It's hard to find a greater speculative leap than preferring an explanation with no basis whatsoever with one whose basis is ubiquitous.

[Phil8659]

Frank S. Robinson doubts a holistic vision of life, the universe, and everything.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/170/Ir ... ico_Faggin

Wow, we can paste words together and pretend we go unlimited number of senses.

I have never seen life. I have never seen the universe, I have never seen everything. And, I am near sighted to boot.

Can we talk about how to make mocha in a microwave?