shandoraSun, Nov 23, 2008 Wildcat: "sentiency in this case can be argued to stand for intelligence in action, being able to appropriate resources and influence the ecology that gave it birth"
This is a good working definition, I would like to suggest we treat sentience as a continuum, with different thresholds linked with different emergent phenomena (might be interesting to look at Sentience Quotient)
In many scientific publications, consciousness is being built from the ground up, starting with sentience inhabiting a neural structure, from there to self awareness, and from there to the vast mind space humans are inhabiting. I tend to explore “Mind” as a primal concept (Being a conscious observer, the naïve-realist assumption of primacy and predominance of matter does not always make sense) and would like to propose the following:
- Mind is the manner in which existence becomes known to us.
Consciousness, therefore, will be a unique phenomena ( emergent ? ) within the phenomena of mind.
Wildcat: “Consciousness - a cluster of universal interests manifested in a particular form of ambientation”.
That’s sounds interesting. Consciousness is alive then:-)
Can I ask for some elaboration on that ?
Especially the term “Universal Interests” seems to be encompassing the universal with the local. Isn't interest always local, designating attraction and possible strategies ?
Wildcat: "sentiency in this case can be argued to stand for intelligence in action, being able to appropriate resources and influence the ecology that gave it birth"
This is a good working definition, I would like to suggest we treat sentience as a continuum, with different thresholds linked with different emergent phenomena (might be interesting to look at Sentience Quotient)
In many scientific publications, consciousness is being built from the ground up, starting with sentience inhabiting a neural structure, from there to self awareness, and from there to the vast mind space humans are inhabiting. I tend to explore “Mind” as a primal concept (Being a conscious observer, the naïve-realist assumption of primacy and predominance of matter does not always make sense) and would like to propose the following:
- Mind is the manner in which existence becomes known to us.
Consciousness, therefore, will be a unique phenomena ( emergent ? ) within the phenomena of mind.
Wildcat: “Consciousness - a cluster of universal interests manifested in a particular form of ambientation”.
That’s sounds interesting. Consciousness is alive then:-)
Can I ask for some elaboration on that ?
Especially the term “Universal Interests” seems to be encompassing the universal with the local. Isn't interest always local, designating attraction and possible strategies ?