Re:Pay attention to Penrose (Score 1)

I agree that Koch is runing around with a hammer and seeing everything as a nail. And I'm not interested in the strong AI problem, merely trying to partition the solution space into feasible and infeasible areas so that we don't waste our time refighting old battles.

In another forum I recently wrote: One of the things I've come to realize is that a lot of the discussions in the philosophy of mind could be simplified if we first had a good account of much simpler questions. Imagine if we could agree how to talk about the relationship between, say, a bacterium and the molecules from which it is composed. What's nomological, what's emergent, the causal relationships, the role of evolution.... If we could get that lot straight, including the science and the metascience involved, I venture to suggest that minds and consciousness would be relatively trivial.