[MD] Computers vs. Brains

[Ham Priday]

Arlo --



 [Ham]:
> But conscious awareness is not simply recorded data. Being-aware presumes 
> an organic locus of sensibility --
> the individuated self.

> [Arlo]
> So tell me. According to your well-thought out metaphysics,
> how does this "being-aware" or "conscious awareness" come to be embedded 
> in the organic matter of our neural
> synapses? Is it floating in nearby space and somehow latches
> onto nearby neural energy? Is it "placed there" deliberately, the way I 
> might put a can of beer in my fridge?
>
> Is it part of the human organism before the organism develops
> a brain? If not, how does the individual organism acquire it? From where 
> does it acquire it?

As always, Arlo, you demand physiological or evolutionary answers to 
metaphysical questions.  How and where experienced events are stored in 
memory is a question that should be addressed to a neurophysicist.  It would 
be senseless for me to Google
"memory" in order to quote you a scientific explanation.  In an objectively 
differentiated reality the central nervous system is the biological 
corollary of conscious awareness.  It's a construct of Value in the same way 
that rocks, trees, and other objects represent man's value-sensibility.

The conscious self is identified with a particular human organism (i.e., the 
"being" that is aware), but it is not the organism or any part of it. 
"Organic matter" is obviously more "real" to you than the consciousness that 
objectivizes it or the primary source that underlies it.  When you ask was 
it "before" or "after", you force an existential timeline, which presupposes 
cause-and-effect.  Scientific objectivism is a mental block to understanding 
metaphysical reality.  Suffice it to say that experiential awareness is a 
process that is contiguous with proprietary consciousness.  I'm not 
interested in chronicling the process; it has been well documented by 
geneticists, psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists.  As a 
philosopher, my focus is on relating the world of appearances to the 
absolute source from which all difference is derived.

--Ham