[MD] Computers vs. Brains

[Ham Priday]

Hi Krimel --

[Ham, in reference to Platt's NYTimes article]:
> It takes more than a brain and neural synapses to
> create conscious awareness.  Consciousness is the
> agent of Value, not an electro-mechanical device
> that can calculate and indicate decisions.  The
> conscious self is what realizes Value in terms of its
> wants and desires.

[Krimel responds]:
> You are right, it takes more than the brain and neural
> synapses to create conscious awareness. You have to
> have an environment for the brain to interact with and
> a history of interaction. If you take those away, what is
> left?

Just absolute sensibility, undifferentiated.

Conscious history is recorded in memory, whether synaptically or embedded in 
electronic chips.  But conscious awareness is not simply recorded data. 
Being-aware presumes an organic locus of sensibility -- the individuated 
self.  Ultimate (i.e., metaphysical) reality has the power of locus (negated 
difference), but neither this potentiality nor "selfness" is separable from 
its absolute sensibility.

If your comment was intended as bait for an argument, I'll bite.

Regards,
Ham