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That's like saying "How do computers compute?" "Well, because we built these giant fabs and factories to build them". You're answering the wrong question.
by koverstreet 10y ago
That's like saying "How do computers compute?" "Well, because we built these giant fabs and factories to build them".
You're answering the wrong question.
- visarga 10y agoNo, there is no difference between human survival/replication and purpose. That's the recurrence, the reentrant loop that bootstraps humans. Of course individual humans might make their own values and act on them, but they only exist as a byproduct of the survival/reproduction process, and are formed by this process.
- koverstreet 10y agoYou're the one talking about purpose. The rest of us are talking about mechanism. You're handwaving away the problem, but that doesn't mean there still isn't a problem there we don't understand yet.
- stOneskull 10y agowhat is the problem?
- drjesusphd 10y agoIt's The Hard Problem. Suppose we eventually know everything about the body and mind, that some day science can simulate and predict the motion of every atom in your body. Thus, all your behavior is deterministic. That still doesn't explain why there's an "ego" there to experience it all.
- stOneskull 10y agoor a consciousness to observe the ego.
- cicero 10y agoThe question is why did survival and replication arise? Rocks don't try to survive or replicate.