[MD] Emergent Consciousness

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Ian]
> The tree in your back yard needs me to see it in order to be the
 > tree that I see. It's inherent existence is something quite different > (from the tree that you or I see) - it's the sum total (emergence) of
> all the quality interactions of something somewhere sometime -
 > exactly what, where, when, we can never know (by definition)
> except by any emergence we detect.

The tree in your back yard is identical to the tree you see.  Otherwise, you're looking at a different tree.

>How hard can it be ? 

Depends whether it's an oak or a pine.
Craig