Re: Sentience
ChuckKuecker (ckuecker@mcs.net)
Wed, 6 May 1998 19:55:45 -0500 (CDT)
At 11:51 5/6/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>So the predictability of the world is related to how you consciously
>observe it. I'm not exactly the authroity on the Gell-Mann Hartle
>Spectrum so don't take anything I say at face value. But someone
>who's "more conscious" (is seeing things on larger scale i.e. more
>complexity) would seem more intelligent than someone who is
>"less-conscious." So it could be that intelligence and consciousness
>is the same thing.
>
>Anyone care to correct me?
>
Not necessarily correct, but conjecture - the less intelligent person may
ignore details that you or I would notice at once. His viewpoint is more
'simplistic' perhaps? Perhaps lesser intelligence can't see details at all..
What you relate here feels right. If you look at any system too closely you
get into the 'forest for the trees' syndrome.
Chuck Kuecker