Re: Peterson's Death Sentence

From: John Fields (jfields_at_austininstruments.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:13:33 -0600

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:03:55 +0000, John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

>I read in sci.electronics.design that John Fields <jfields@austininstrum
>ents.com> wrote (in <c13qv0d0sm9crf9t9bpro72bg97283rtn9@4ax.com>) about
>'Peterson's Death Sentence', on Sun, 30 Jan 2005:
>
>>Yes, but extending that to the argument of when human consciousness
>>occurs, if consciousness occurs, when traversing the spectrum, at the
>>yellow line, then the 'when window' will be anywhere within the jitter
>>region of the line, somewhat akin to suddenly waking up, somewhere,
>>while crossing Consciousness Street.
>
>You are arguing after assuming the result you want to prove. Consider
>that there is 'red' consciousness', and so on all through the spectrum
>to 'violet' consciousness, which is what we have.
>
>The 'threshold' of consciousness is the FUZZY boundary between infra red
>and visible red. I suppose insects and fish may be in this area, but I'm
>prepared for the animal behaviourists to produce other evidence. 

---
Very nice, but I disagree.  I hadn't considered the threshold of the
lowest form of consciousness to be the threshold for _all_
consciousnesses, but rather a myriad of "places", one for each
consciousness, where that particular consciousness "popped into"
being.
-- 
John Fields

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