[MD] Quantum Enigma

[David Thomas]

On 9/28/10 3:45 AM, "MarshaV" <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

> Everybody in the world may know this but moi, but I find it terribly exciting:
> 
> 
>    "To argue that conscious experience goes beyond ordinary knowing, we are
> told the story of Mary, a scientist of the future who knows all there is to
> know abut the perception of color.  But she has never been outside a room
> where everything is black or white.  One day she is shown something red.  For
> the first time, Mary _experiences_ red.  Her experience of red is something
> _beyond_ her complete knowledge of red.  Or is it?  You can no doubt generate
> for yourself the pro and con arguments that the Mary story provokes."

Here's a con from a link page by Chalmers who is on the pro side.

 http://http-server.carleton.ca/~abrook/papers/2005-ConscNsc-1CogBrain.pdf
> 
>>>>>> (Rosenblum & Kuttner,'Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness',
>>>>>> p.180,2006) 

> Somehow this represents the difference between 'probabilities' and
> 'possibilities,' but don't ask me to explain.
>  

And this is Chalmers link page with a wealth of papers on consciousness.

http://consc.net/mindpapers/1.2g

Dave