[MD] Consciousness

[Platt Holden]

[Bo]
> Animals awareness (biological value perception) are by senses, hope 
> we agree about that? Also that sleep isn't present at the lower end of 
> the bio. scale, it has something to do with more complex neural 
> systems. Regarding "dynamic" in the static range I am skeptical   

Me, too. 

[Mel]
> > Animal self-consciousness tends towards the dynamic immediate for the
> > majority of its life, because that is what is most successful in
> > staying alive. 
 
> I still have doubts about "dynamic". The most static is in fact what's 
> known as the autonomous neural system, the said hard-wired 
> operating system, instincts, reflexes. 

Right. Change in, of and by itself doesn't mean a response to DQ. The sun 
rising and setting, the seasons changing, plants growing and dying, animals 
fighting, fleeing. feeding and f ---ing are all examples of static 
patterns. Science and technology thrive on static patterns at the inorganic 
and biological levels. Singular events (anomalies), like the creation of 
life, science is at a loss to explain. 

Platt