Re: Peterson's Death Sentence

From: Kevin Aylward (salesEXTRACT_at_anasoft.co.uk)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:55:11 GMT

John Fields wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:05:22 +0000, John Woodgate
> <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:
>
>> I read in sci.electronics.design that John Fields
>> <jfields@austininstrum ents.com> wrote (in
>> <ue4lv01fl22is149t831nus45049ksn66n@4ax.com>) about 'Peterson's
>> Death Sentence', on Fri, 28 Jan 2005:
>>
>>> Something like that. The rainbow analogy may be a little strained
>>> unless you consider the colors as an array of discrete wavelengths,
>>
>> That seems to me to be completely backwards. The *colour* doesn't
>> look like discrete wavelengths; it looks like a continuum. Same with
>> consciousness, unless you define it in such a way that it's limited
>> to Homo sapiens.
>
> ---
> Yes, that's the point I was trying to make. That "color", even though
> it may _look_ like a countinuum, really isn't,

Yes it is. Dah...colour is expressed by frequency or wavelength, both of
which are continuous.

>and consciousness, even
> though it may also look like a continuum is really discrete in that
> before it can be recognized as consciousness, it must cross some
> threshold.

This is simply speculation. I disagree completely. There is no evidence
whatsoever that consciousness has a threshold. There are good arguments
against such a view.

Kevin Aylward
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